Two-school supporters start up online petition
PARENTS have started an online petition in support of the under-fire two-school model, which they believe is visionary, ambitious and will create lifelong passions for learning.
PARENTS have started an online petition in support of the under-fire two-school model, which they believe is visionary, ambitious and will create lifelong passions for learning.
UNIONS are hopeful their secondary school concerns will be addressed, after four days of States debate, which saw politicians involved in angry shouting matches and tearful outbursts.
AN AMBITIOUS 10-year plan to increase physical activity in the Bailiwick may begin this year, if States approval is obtained.
GREEN ribbons fluttered triumphantly over the Royal Court House last night as, by the narrowest of margins, the ‘stop and review’ requete won the day.
EDUCATION'S plans for two large 11-18 secondary schools have been put on hold after a requete calling for a 'pause and review' succeeded by one vote this evening.
DIRE warnings about the impact of accepting the pause and review education requete on students, plans for the Guernsey Institute and teacher recruitment were given by Education, Sport & Culture president Matt Fallaize.
AN ATTEMPT to have Education, Sport & Culture go away and compare two- and three-school models failed after members resoundingly rejected an amendment from the president of Policy & Resources.
‘I THINK it was their dream and our nightmare.’ That was the view of Sadie Morgan, 73, who yesterday joined more than 100 other people to protest against plans to overhaul the States’ secondary education system.
LETTING his political mask slip to show some 'human frailty', a deputy has said he was delighted that 'a series of completely vexatious complaints' against him amounted to nothing.
THE president of Education has accepted that an email he sent to a civil servant over a controversial appointment was ‘intemperate’, after an independent panel found that he had breached the States members code of conduct in two places.
Guernsey’s politicians have an unenviable task ahead of them this week, with the divisive issue of education back on the agenda.
DO THE States of Guernsey, and in particular ESC, have a mandate? In framing this question I have to wonder the cause and effect of government and, to a degree, policing. Policing is the clearer question, as there are fewer policemen (generic term to include women) and therefore, they have to police by consent of the people. If 2,500 people turned out against the police, the police would have to take notice by pure dint of numbers. The States of Guernsey, however, is a more difficult scenario – 38 Guernsey residents are supported by hundreds of civil servants, and somehow this creates a body that overrules a majority.
THE ‘pause and review’ requete on the schools debate should be renamed ‘not determining the best model for secondary education’, says Education, Sport & Culture’s president as he reveals a delay could lead to financial implications of up to £11.3m.
STAFF at the Grammar School have said that latest information regarding curriculum equality is a 'smokescreen and misrepresentation of the facts'.
TEACHERS at St Sampson's School have come out virtually unanimously in support of a three school model with one co-located sixth form centre.