THREE 11-16 schools with a separate post-16 campus have received top marks in an analysis of different education models carried out by civil servants, it was claimed yesterday.
ESTABLISHING a standalone sixth form centre at Les Ozouets is a £40m. gamble with taxpayers’ money because nothing like it exists anywhere else in the world, according to the president of Environment & Infrastructure.
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A NEW director of Education has finally been appointed after months of the role remaining unfilled.
ESTIMATES suggest that up to 1,200 people a day could use the proposed new post-16 campus at the former St Peter Port School site in Les Ozouets.
STUDENTS and teachers who come into contact with a positive Covid case in a school setting – but do not show symptoms – will be allowed to attend school, unless told otherwise by Public Health.
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THERE is something rather unsatisfactory about the outcome of the code of conduct complaint lodged against Education Committee member Andy Cameron by the rest of the committee.
THE deputy who shared a document with other States members which revealed that teachers were strongly opposed to new plans for secondary education has been cautioned – the lowest level of sanction – by the deputies’ Code of Conduct panel.
We are concerned by the ESC’s plans and how they will affect the education of our own children. The policy letter, published the day before the summer half-term, set out plans to close La Mare De Carteret and cram those children into the Les Varendes and Les Beaucamps sites with no investment to accommodate them. Unlike in 2015 and 2018, accompanying the policy letter was no leaflet drop to all houses to explain the model and no email out to all parents through the schools’ network. To understand what is proposed parents need to actively seek out information. If passed on 8 September, the States will delegate authority to P&R to release the money to put ‘spades in the ground’ with no further debate in the chamber. Why are parents not being actively briefed on such an important decision? Why the change of approach to communication?
STUDENTS and their families all over the island were celebrating GCSE exam successes yesterday having overcome a double lockdown during their studies.
GUERNSEY’S sixth-formers celebrated success in the face of adversity yesterday as schools and the College of Further Education reported an unprecedented 100% A-level or equivalent pass rate after two years in which the students’ studies were blighted by pandemic-induced lockdowns.
POLITICS is not immune to the regrettable fact that if a narrative is repeated enough times and for long enough it becomes accepted as a conventional wisdom and is adopted as a baseline assumption for all that follows, irrespective of whether the narrative is true or false.
FURTHER details of the proposed three 11-16 schools and post-16 campus will be released over the next few weeks.
