DISAPPOINTMENT at the delay to the plans for secondary education has been expressed by deputies who were against the proposals in the first place, although one said the hold-up was ‘understandable but unfortunate’.
GUERNSEY'S new secondary education and post-16 model has been delayed by a year due to construction costs and overly tight deadlines.
LOOKING back over the past political year for signs of what to expect from this year, I’m prompted to ask, does anybody read Jonathan Swift these days?
SOME two years ago the previous Education Committee was on the verge of taking a proposal to the States for local management of schools, a long-held action, recommended in the landmark review of a then-failing education system carried out by former UK government adviser Dennis Mulkerrin.
CHANGES to the island’s Liberation Day celebrations this year have been defended.
STAFF shortages, supply chain problems in the construction industry, and Covid are putting increasing pressure on the 2024 time frame for completing a £101m. transformation of States secondary education.
APPLICATIONS for temporary classrooms at two education sites have been submitted.
COMMUNITY groups have been temporarily stopped from using States’ school spaces for activities in an attempt to reduce the spread of Covid-19.
FACE coverings for older pupils, the reintroduction of classroom bubbles and staggered pick-up and drop-off times are among the Covid-19 mitigation measures being introduced at Guernsey's States-run schools for the new term, which begins next week.
TERM at States-run schools is finishing on Friday in an effort to save Christmas for families and teachers.
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EDUCATION has hit back at a teacher union’s claims that its handling of the pandemic in schools has been poor.
THERE were 11 confirmed cases of Covid-19 among 880 staff in States-run schools earlier this week.
TEACHERS are calling for masks to be made mandatory in all school areas to protect staff from Covid-19 and avoid a work-related stress epidemic within the local profession.
EDUCATION, Sport & Culture has been criticised for citing concerns about the construction industry while raising the spectre of a delay to the implementation of its flagship secondary and post-16 rebuilding programme.
