Legislation

Single-sex education and Constitution: legal reflections before an ideological debate

The following article by Miguel Rodríguez Blanco, Professor of Ecclesiastical Law in Universidad de Alcalá, was published on 9th December 2022 in Nueva Revista.  On November 18, 2022, the Judiciary made public the news that the Superior Court of Justice of Navarra had made the decision to…

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Single-sex education and Constitutional Court

This article analyzes the jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court on single-sex education, after a brief review of the background and jurisprudence of the Supreme Court. According to the case law of the Constitutional Court, insofar as the Constitution recognises freedom of education (Article 27.…

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The Constitutional Court affirms single-sex school is constitutional

Single-sex education in Spain has frequently been criticized by certain political groups or ideological sectors. In some cases, the ignorance of current reality causes that these criticisms are based on the school of the early twentieth century, in which boys and girls were separated and taught…

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Single-sex education and public funding

Single-sex education, far from being linked to an era, to an ideology or to a type of schools, is growing strongly all over the world today in very different spheres, countries, cultures and political realities, but especially in advanced countries. This growth occurs mainly in the public…

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International laws back single-sex education

The General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, meeting in Paris from 14 November to 15 December 1960, at its eleventh session, Recalling that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights asserts the principle of non-discrimination and proclaims that…

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