Education seeks to fill two key roles in next few months
EDUCATION needs to make two key senior appointments as it looks to address a period of instability.
It is looking to recruit an executive principal to lead the new organisation which will be formed by integrating the College of Further Education, the Institute of Health and Social Care Studies and the Guernsey Training Agency.
The committee will advertise and interview for the post in the next few weeks and hopes to select the successful candidate before the end of March.
At the same time, applications will be invited for a permanent director of education.
This is a statutory role where the post holder serves as the principal education advisor to the committee.
The current board was elected in February last year when the position of director of education was vacant.
Former head teacher Andrew Warren agreed to become director on a short-term contract, which was announced in June, until a permanent appointment could be made. He has said his intention is to leave the role by April.
Mr Warren has contributed to the development of a slightly re-defined role for the next person elected.
Education president Deputy Matt Fallaize said the committee was very reliant on the post of director of education for support and advice.
‘Looking back to before 2018 there has been a period of instability in the role and the committee wants to address that by appointing a permanent director,’ he said.
‘The new director will play a leading role in all aspects of the committee’s ambitious policy agenda [which] includes the restructuring of secondary education from four schools into two 11-18 colleges operating as one school, the appointment of Ofsted as the inspector of our schools, substantial changes to the way in which the performance of schools and students is assessed at GCSE level, and the development of a new Education Law.’
He said in all these areas the person appointed will benefit from the work undertaken by Mr Warren.
‘Without Andrew’s advice and experience the committee would not have been able to press ahead with its policy agenda as quickly as it has and we will always be grateful to him for temporarily stepping into the role at short notice.’
As the jobs have not yet been advertised, salary ranges are not available.
