THE proposed development at Les Beaucamps High School is disproportionate to the size of land available and traffic management does not seem to have been properly considered, the Castel douzaine has said.
SOME senior deputies are privately predicting a U-turn in the States on the two large comprehensive schools, amid mass opposition from teachers.
A GROUP of deputies are calling for a one-year delay on the program to transform Guernsey’s states schools, highlighting possible significant cost overruns and the level of public outcry.
88 members of staff from St Sampson's High School have signed a letter in reply to the open letter sent last week by nine education leaders on the 1 school 2 sites model. They believe the new model will be 'calamitous' for education and the island as a whole.
MATT FALLAIZE has plenty on his mind these days with the High Schools education debate bubbling ever hotter by the day.
EDUCATION, Sport and Culture’s final cost/benefit analysis of the new schools development will be subject to a further independent review in April.
THE life of a columnist is not, as some may imagine, all glamour. Indeed the ever-present deadline pressure can be quite troubling if there is no obvious topic on which to wax eloquently upon. But as I write this one I am spoilt for choice by a plethora of options.
CHEERS and whoops of delight filled the hall at St Sampson’s High School in response to unanswered questions put to Education staff and its representatives on Wednesday.
IF EDUCATION was hoping the intervention of senior head teachers was going to shift the dial in the schools debate they will have found little comfort in the immediate reaction.
THERE is understandably huge scepticism surrounding the ambitions for getting thousands of extra people to the two new school sites.
Not the Cotswold School
Guernsey cannot continue to be paralysed by indecision while seeking the Holy Grail of a model for secondary and post-16 education, school leaders have said, as they warn of the impact further delays will have.
A UNIQUE 18th century plan of St Peter Port purchased for Guernsey by the Island Archives is the most significant purchase it has made in at least 20 years, said the States archivist.
EDUCATION, Sport and Culture will be challenged as to what it has done following criticism of its plans for the transformation of secondary education at this week’s States meeting.
Response by Education, Sport & Culture vice-president Deputy Richard Graham to Brendan Murphy’s letter of 9 January:
