College of FE students get some political insight
FEMALE college students have been encouraged to get more involved in local politics following a special talk from deputies Michelle Le Clerc and Sandra James.
The In The States sessions have previously been aimed at secondary age students, but when Deputy Le Clerc and the college's health and early year's programme manager Lorraine Barker met at a breakfast seminar they spoke about how they could get the students more engaged with the States and politics.
The idea bloomed into a talk at the college's Delancey Campus, where around 60 students from the health and early years course came to hear how the deputies undertook their roles.
Deputy Le Clerc is on the Social Security board, while Deputy James is the department's deputy minister.
Among the audience were Year 2, level three health and social care students Grace Smith and Shannon Murphy, both 18.
'The talk has really given me some motivation to get in touch with the deputies,' Miss Smith said.
'We want to get younger people's views across.'
