A TOTAL of £1m. has been ring-fenced by Education, Sport & Culture for the next five years for the Guernsey Sports Commission to deliver physical education in the Bailiwick’s primary schools.
BAILIWICK students will have the same rights of appeal against exam grades – Level 3 results, including A-levels are released today – as their counterparts in the UK.
THE independent spirit and protocols of Guernsey’s system of government have again been criticised as weak, flawed and sub-optimal.
A SIGNIFICANT number of civil servants with responsibility for Guernsey’s schools left when the current Education committee took over with an idea for two large comprehensive colleges at St Sampson’s and La Mare de Carteret.
STAFF in education have raised concerns about the high level of turnover when the new committee took control in 2018.
I REFER to a report (Guernsey Press, 4 July) involving comparisons made by Colonel Richard Graham of the number of students from this island who are accepted at Oxford or Cambridge as against those from a comprehensive school in Newham, London. The thrust of his comments is: what are they doing right that we are doing wrong? Thinking these comparisons must be flawed and that there has to be a catch, I found my suspicions justified by one of your correspondents in a letter entitled: UK school highlighted is selective (Guernsey Press, 7 July). I have so far seen no response from Colonel Graham on this. But on the face of it, his comparisons are clearly bogus. He has failed to disclose that the school in question has a massively selective and sought after sixth form which has no catchment area.
THERE are growing calls for the pandemic to be a ‘catalyst for change’ in how the States operates.
VIRTUAL school lessons throughout the day during lockdown were ruled out by Guernsey’s Education bosses because of concerns that the poorest children would fall furthest behind.
LESS THAN half of travellers coming through Guernsey’s borders are receiving home visits from States’ staff to check that they are isolating.
DESPITE Guernsey’s return to relative normality, planning for the possibility of another pandemic is likely to be a priority for organisations across the island for some time to come.
SMALL secondary schools with up to 800 pupils and a sixth form on one site have emerged as the preferences among teaching staff, as the island considers the next steps in the transformation of education.
EDUCATION, Sport & Culture has committed to operating a full schedule of Swim School lessons from September.
EDUCATION, Sport & Culture was scrambling yesterday to explain to angry parents why Beau Sejour Swim School lessons were being cut severely.
SOMETHING, somewhere went hideously wrong.
REPORTS of razors super-glued to play equipment at Delancey Park on Monday sparked a police search, but none were found.
