New employment permits 'could make it harder to keep teachers'

GUERNSEY'S Education minister has voiced fears that a proposed employment permit system could hamper the department's efforts to retain teachers within the island.

Education minister Carol Steere (pictured) said she had not had time to investigate the proposals from the Population Policy Group fully.

But her initial reaction was that the move could cause recruitment problems for her department.

'At the moment we have people on five-year contracts but we can't hold them to that,' she said.

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