The games people play
By the end of last week’s States meeting the Assembly’s windsock had detected a significant change in the direction of the political breeze, says Richard Graham
By the end of last week’s States meeting the Assembly’s windsock had detected a significant change in the direction of the political breeze, says Richard Graham
IT’S time to move the conversation over education away from buildings. So says the Education Committee, brought in to facilitate the development of new sixth form buildings and some of whose members were very deeply involved in what was, arguably still is, a pitched battle over the future of local education and its premises.
EDUCATION, Sport & Culture president Andrea Dudley-Owen is calling for the ‘depressed and catastrophised’ discussion of the future of secondary education to focus less on buildings and more on the progress being made in its plans.
Deputy Sue Aldwell explains why she reluctantly supports GST and why the alternative of slashing States budgets is unthinkable to her.
TOILET blocks in all States high schools no longer have main access doors in an effort to deter groups of students gathering unseen, Education, Sport & Culture has told a concerned deputy.
GUERNSEY’S first education strategy annual report has been published, detailing where schools are succeeding and highlighting what improvements are needed.
EDUCATION committee member Andy Cameron is backing a move to force the committee to keep the Sixth Form Centre at Les Varendes.
THE claim by Education, Sport & Culture’s that the establishment of new boards of governors for Guernsey Schools was ‘well received’ by the schools’ committees has been disputed by some members.
The latest chapter in Guernsey’s education saga is the last straw for Deputy Peter Roffey. He explains why...
THE idea of having boards of governors for all States-run education establishments was well-received by representatives of school committees at a meeting on Tuesday night, said the president of Education, Sport and Culture.
THE Education, Sport & Culture Committee has refused to rearrange a meeting which clashes with Policy & Resources’ public presentation of the tax review tomorrow.
When you have lived as many decades as I have, you can be forgiven if from time to time you wonder if the world has gone mad. I can scarcely believe what I am writing, but it is true, the UK government plans to introduce a new employment law that will give workers the right to request special arrangements for themselves from the very first day that they turn up for work, and before they even ask where the free coffee machine is and how long before they can take their first rest break. Millions of these selfless, dedicated workers will be enabled to demand personal deals that will let them work from their beach hut, share their job with their best friend or grace the office with their presence only for certain hours of the day. This would be unremarkable if Gwyneth Paltrow, the woke Queen of Goop, were Prime Minister, but she isn’t. No, this wacky stuff is being peddled by, of all people, a Tory government. Thank goodness nothing like it could possibly happen here. Just imagine, half the civil service working from home and States deputies casting their votes from their sun loungers in the Caribbean. Unthinkable in Guernsey, eh?
ST SAMPSON’S High School is fundamentally letting down its pupils, a group of parents have told the Guernsey Press.
LA MARE de Carteret High School’s buildings are far past their expected life-span, said a teachers’ union in response to the announcement of plans to move the Sixth Form Centre to the site for a year.
I WAS shocked and disappointed to learn of the termination of the contract with RGF to build the proposed new post-16 campus. I believe all stakeholders, students, parents, teachers, deputies, and the wider community will share my dismay at the uncertainty which now clouds the proposed way forward. This clearly needs to be addressed as rapidly as possible.