Is support for RE in schools in Northern Ireland on the wane? It is possible to think that results of a recent survey commissioned by the Integrated Education Fund suggest so. Only a small minority of those surveyed (20%) said they want to see schools or the state as having the main responsibility for religious education and fewer than half (47%) believe the state should fund religious education. But what do these figures mean? A closer look shows that the language used in the survey is somewhat ambiguous, and the reporting potentially confusing. On the issue of funding religious education, for example, the question states: In your opinion should schools providing one type of religious education and one type of religious observance be funded by ...? In other words, the focus of the question is about non-inclusive faith-based education rather than broadly-based curriculum RE. In the section in the report titled 'Main responsibility for religious education', the actual qu