Education easily wins vote of no confidence
POLITICIANS in charge of Education convincingly survived a vote of confidence in their ability to lead a review into different schooling models.
POLITICIANS in charge of Education convincingly survived a vote of confidence in their ability to lead a review into different schooling models.
DEPUTIES have been grappling over a vote of confidence in the ability of Education, Sport & Culture to lead an independent review into the future of local schools.
A REVIEW of the current provision available for children and young people with special educational needs has been postponed due to concerns about the global coronavirus pandemic.
THE Scrutiny Management Committee is not going to proceed with its review of Education’s recruitment procedures after the States yesterday failed to support its proposal for a tribunal of inquiry.
CONSTABLES from four of the island’s southern parishes believe the current Education committee should resign.
IF YOU believe Education and Policy & Resources, they are doing everything possible to be open and transparent over the appointment of the head of curriculum and standards.
EDUCATION and Policy & Resources have refused to release correspondence surrounding the recruitment of the head of curriculum and standards but insist there is no resistance to being transparent.
CAMPAIGNERS against the two-school model have described latest plans to plot a future direction for education as showing a ‘relentless lack of regard’.
AS MUCH as I was tempted to write about Education, Sport & Culture’s decision to put it to the States that it be entrusted to determine the pathway for pause and review, I feel far more personally drawn to wax lyrical about coronavirus.
ACCUSATIONS that Education, Sport & Culture wilfully ignored the States decision to halt work on the two-school model and ordered new Lisia School uniforms have been described as ‘completely false’.
JUST reading the Guernsey Press front page news of how the vote was passed about the ‘pause and review’ requete. Such a close-run vote – by a single vote. What I do find interesting is how the 17 deputies who voted against the requete totally ignored the views of the thousands of people on the march, plus those on the Facebook vote, the green ribbon campaign, etc.
THE POLITICIANS in charge of education have been accused of bringing the States into disrepute, ignoring democratic decisions, appearing self-serving, and losing the trust of teachers.
IT IS ironic that John Dyke, in his Open Lines letter of Monday 9 March 2020, should couple his relief that the current programme for the transformation of secondary and post-16 education has been halted with his wish to devolve governance of our schools from the office of the Committee for Education, Sport & Culture to the schools themselves as soon as possible.
THE LEADER of the successful bid to halt the two-school model believes that the politicians in charge of education are now ‘dragging their feet’ on the comprehensive review which they have been instructed to carry out.
EDUCATION’S politicians are staying in post in a bid to direct any future changes. But they are asking the States to show that the Assembly has confidence in them.