Homeschooling and the lessons we can learn from other countries 

Homeschooling is arguably the fastest growing education provision in the State, but is greater regulation needed? Jen Horgan explores

Anna Uí Dhálaigh, husband Peadar and children Ariana, Oisín, and Aonghus.

Since before covid, and alongside her husband, Anna Uí Dhálaigh, public relations officer with Home Education Network Ireland, has happily homeschooled her three primary-school aged children.

Anna’s story is not unique. Homeschooling is arguably the fastest growing education provision in the State. The number of children on a waiting list for assessment for home education, as at the end of December 2023 was 1,100.