Colleges face losing 25% of States grant

TAXPAYER funding for Guernsey's colleges will be cut by nearly a quarter over the next seven years, if deputies agree.

The schools support the plan but warned that the reduction in income would be difficult to absorb and would push them to 'the absolute limits of what is viable'.

'The Policy Council is mindful of the fact that the colleges are an established part of the island's education system, which have a long history of support from the States,' Chief Minister Lyndon Trott (pictured) said in the Billet d'Etat today.

Under the plan, the annual £4.88m. grant would be cut by £1.11m. by 2018. It is part of the Financial Transformation Programme, the States' wide-ranging savings scheme.

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