Former member puts pressure on Education over outdated law
EDUCATION should press ahead quickly with a new law that would devolve powers to schools, a former member of the committee has said.
EDUCATION should press ahead quickly with a new law that would devolve powers to schools, a former member of the committee has said.
EDUCATION has played down the chance of moving to a three-school secondary model with a co-located sixth form at one of the sites.
REGARDING the recent editorial (Education journey has a long way to go), I think it’s irresponsible and inaccurate to characterise one of the school models as dead. The election cannot be interpreted as a referendum on the two-school model; although education was clearly an important issue, voters select their candidates taking into account numerous issues, not just education. The education requete (authored by the current ESC president) clearly laid out the terms of the review and it included the two-school model. We now need ESC to follow through on this in a fair and transparent manner, without pre-emptively excluding any option. The best model will be the one that’s affordable and with the most palatable compromises. The costs of the two-school model seem to be significantly lower than the other models, and from listening to the extensive debates in the last Assembly, it also provides numerous benefits over the other models. Although there are challenges around its implementation, the committee and Assembly have to fairly consider whether these challenges are surmountable compared to an implementation of a different model and its associated compromises. I’m a parent of children who are a few years away from starting their secondary education, but the years are ticking by without a decision being made. I urge ESC and the Assembly to progress
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THE Committee for Education, Sport and Culture says it is ‘deeply disappointed’ that an interim report on the future of secondary schooling has been leaked.
A LEAKED report has revealed that the three-school model favoured by the majority of deputies during the election run-up would be by far the most expensive to build in a like-for-like comparison with other models.
EDUCATION has refused to release a report completed by its predecessors which would cast a light on the different secondary education models.
THE EXISTING four-school model of secondary education is back on the agenda after the new Education committee decided it should become a benchmark in the ‘pause and review’ investigations.
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