Trust alone will not effect transformation
IN EDUCATION we trust.
IN EDUCATION we trust.
THE two-school model is close to being declared officially dead, as States members lined up yesterday to criticise calls for a like-for-like comparison of different models to be properly considered.
EDUCATION has been accused of making a misleading statement when it responded to calls for a like-for-like comparison to be completed into different school models.
A TEACHING union has said that repeated requests for details and reassurances around the new three-school model have not been answered.
I READ recently three articles in the Press on the subject of our education service, with great sadness. One was by Nick Mann, one by Richard Graham and the third by Richard Digard. Thinking back over my 60-plus years involvement with the education service I realised that they were absolutely correct, hence my sadness. Over the last two decades or so our education service has been on a gradual decline with standards of achievement falling with it – Richard Digard’s slow-motion rail crash.
ONE OF the organisers of the march against the two large schools has said he is heartened by the three-school model which has emerged as the preferred option of the new Education committee.
It’s impossible to properly judge the new Education committee’s proposals without more detail, says Deputy Peter Roffey, but he already has his doubts...
GUERNSEY students will not sit international exams this year, Education, Sport and Culture said yesterday, and its president apologised wholeheartedly for the distress it had caused with its earlier statement that they would.
THE former president of Education, Sport & Culture said he would be surprised if the current committee’s preferred model was not ‘well into seven figures’ more expensive than the one proposed under his leadership.
A SIXTH-FORM centre at Les Ozouets alongside the new Guernsey Institute, and three 11-16 schools, is the preferred model of the new Education committee.
A HASTY apology and U-turn for more time to decide whether international exams should go ahead this summer was made by Education late on Saturday.
THE POLITICIANS in charge of education in Guernsey are being asked to stand by the outcome of the ‘pause and review’ campaign and provide a like-for-like comparison of different school models.
IT IS pleasing to be given a right of reply by the Guernsey Press to Mr Mulkerrin’s letter [Local education structure was kicked out in England more than 30 years ago, Guernsey Press Wednesday 3 March] and an opportunity to be able to repeat once more, for the absolute avoidance of doubt, that the workstream to update the Education Law has not been halted.
BLINK and you could have missed it. The latest States meeting started at 9.30am (well, sort of) and after a brief rest at 11am (it’s tough, all this working from home stuff) it was all over by noon.
THE island’s education leaders have been urged to give more power to head teachers to run schools and reduce control from officials at Sir Charles Frossard House, so that children are not let down by unnecessary bureaucracy.