Primary and secondary education Children from Catholic and Protestant homes in Belfast are taught, for the most part, separately on a pattern that, by the mid-nineteenth century, had been established throughout Ireland. Primary and secondary education is divided between (Catholic) Maintained Schools and (non-Catholic/ "Protestant") Controlled Schools. They are bound by the same curriculum, but their teaching staff are trained separately (in the university colleges of St Mary's and Stranmillis).
primary and secondary education children from catholic and protestant homes in belfast are taught for the most part separately on a pattern that by the mid-nineteenth century had been established throughout ireland primary and secondary education is divided between (catholic) maintained schools and (non-catholic/ "protestant") controlled schools they are bound by the same curriculum but their teaching staff are trained separately (in the university colleges of st mary's and stranmillis)