Time for ESC to stop digging?
EDUCATION, Sport & Culture appeared to be reluctant to engage with media inquiries yesterday as this newspaper sought to enhance understanding of what constitutes a ‘special interest’ in committee discussions.
EDUCATION, Sport & Culture appeared to be reluctant to engage with media inquiries yesterday as this newspaper sought to enhance understanding of what constitutes a ‘special interest’ in committee discussions.
RULE 49 of the States Rules of Procedure is set to be reviewed.
POLICY & RESOURCES president Peter Ferbrache has called for the States to withdraw funding from the grant-aided colleges.
A FOUR-YEAR process to change how Guernsey measures GCSE performance will be completed this summer.
EDUCATION member Andy Cameron has been kicked out of the committee’s discussions about its secondary and post-16 plans.
THERE are still nine vacant teaching posts in States secondary schools ahead of pupils returning in September.
EDUCATION must look at every pound it spends, its president has said, as she stands by a move to reduce the current funding of the Activ8 sports strategy.
Education, Sport & Culture is under increasing pressure to reverse its plan to cut funding for sport following the success of Guernsey’s Island Games.
THE Sports Commission has claimed that Education, Sport & Culture’s proposed funding cuts would put at risk even ‘the bare basics’ of the island’s sports strategy.
A DEPUTY has called into question whether the States have invested enough into the legacy of Guernsey 2023.
A TEMPORARY sixth form centre at La Mare de Carteret could be in place for twice as long as planned without spending more on the school’s facilities.
AT A time when we are only days away from the Island Games festivities and heroic achievements, and Deputy Dudley-Owen, ESC, the Sports Commission and Amanda Hibbs and her outstanding team have worked so hard, we do need more action regarding the dirty state of Town.
SCRAPPING or delaying post-16 education provision based at Les Ozouets ‘risks derailing the education system’, the president of the Education Committee has warned.
Richard Graham looks back at last week’s States debate
WITH the Education Committee now reflecting on the ‘car crash’ that was the debate on its plans to revamp the island’s 1970s Education Law, it may wish to pay heed to colleague Deputy Andy Cameron, who said after the proposals collapsed that his committee should have done so much better.