Matt Fallaize resigns from Education

GUERNSEY'S Education Department's troubles deepened yesterday as it lost another board member in the wake of its handling of the GCSE saga.

Deputy Matt Fallaize announced his resignation in the afternoon, having only the day before had it rejected when debated by the States.

It also emerged that the only member who had not put forward his resignation, Deputy David De Lisle, would have stood for the minister's job if Carol Steere's resignation had been accepted.

Deputy Fallaize had long argued that all the board should have resigned to be held accountable for their handling of the falling GCSE standards at La Mare de Carteret and St Sampson's High.

'We asked for our resignation to be debated so that we could explain our actions to the Assembly,' he said.

'Having done that, I was amazed when the States rejected the resignations.'

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