Island 'is in a unique position for technology in education'

Rory Steel, assistant headmaster at Beaulieu, a fee-paying, non-academically selective Catholic girls' school, was on the panel for an Institute of Directors seminar as part of its lunchtime series.

Mr Steel has worked on a programme to make Beaulieu School the first gigabit-connected school in the country and has spent the last few years introducing technology in an attempt to transform learning.

Discussion at the seminar focused, in part, on how far ahead Beaulieu was compared with States schools in Guernsey, but Mr Steel believed there was a lot to be positive about in the island.

'Guernsey is a unique opportunity.

'Jersey would be envious of having a team of people going around schools delivering on subjects and giving the teachers real input. Jersey doesn't have that and we want it,' he said.

'People look at the negatives sometimes, but with eyes looking in from Jersey, I do actually think you've got an extremely good opportunity to project yourselves very fast forward. I think you should just back people who want to do it and there seem to be a lot of people who want this to happen – and it's an easy win for Guernsey.'