Schools in need of gay guidelines

SCHOOL staff are often more uneasy than their students about young people being openly gay, research has found.

A key aspect of the study for the Gay and Lesbian Equality Network (GLEN) was to examine the challenges presented to school staff by students being openly gay.

Staff from 18 second-level schools spoke to the research team from National University of Ireland Maynooth about the need to support them in dealing with their own discomfort or lack of familiarity with issues relating to homosexual students.