'Why a review when we pay thousands to have our schools inspected?'

DOES Guernsey need an expensive review of education, when an independent inspection system is already in place, Education minister Carol Steere (pictured) asked yesterday.

The deputy has been under fire since poor GCSE results at high schools were eventually made public last week.

In the States on Friday the minister and three of her board offered their resignations over the issue, while Chief Minister Lyndon Trott called for a root-and-branch review of secondary education.

But on yesterday's BBC Guernsey phone-in, Deputy Steere came out fighting.

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