PEOPLE seem to prefer their political narratives expressed simply these days. Fair enough. Here’s my simple, six-point, layman’s guide to the proposed new system of secondary education.
TEACHERS will view proposals to reorganise secondary education in the island ‘with a mixture of resignation and concern’, a teaching union said yesterday.
FROM THURSDAY’S MEETING AT LES VARENDES
FROM WEDNESDAY’S MEETING AT LES BEAUCAMPS
A PLEDGE was made to the La Mare de Carteret community last night that the school will ‘not be allowed to drift’ in the run up to its planned closure in three years time.
STAFF at La Mare de Carteret High School have described the announcement on the recommended closure of the school as ‘insensitive, untimely and disrespectful’.
REBUILDING La Mare de Carteret school would be too expensive for the stretched States of Guernsey purse, Education, Sport & Culture has said, as it confirms it will be pushing forward with the former Grammar School site instead.
THE one school over different sites concept and its shared uniform is dead because Education leaders have said they want to foster different school identities and cultures.
A TEACHING union has described a planned increase in pupil number limits in classes at Guernsey’s secondary schools as a ‘worsening of provision’.
DEPUTY Peter Roffey was absolutely right when he suggested in his last column that the current States’ Assembly needs to stop obsessively comparing itself to its predecessor. In doing so, it is going backwards against its own ideals of being more unified and working better together towards a more common purpose. Worse than that, it is widening the divisions that are developing in our community.
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A NON-STATES member has faced a strong backlash from some deputies for expressing views on how the secondary education review has been handled.
THE two-school model has been consigned to history after States members were asked to trust the new Education committee and were told the results of the ‘pause and review’ investigation were ‘a nonsense’.
