One of the island’s largest teachers’ unions has called on the Education, Sport & Culture Committee to scrap its plans to move the sixth form centre to La Mare de Carteret.
THE States’ deplorable record in handling education reform over what is now stretching towards a decade reaches a new low this week.
Education has admitted it has no idea whether it will continue with a temporary relocation of the Sixth Form Centre to La Mare de Carteret.
AN ATTEMPT to keep the sixth form centre at Les Varendes was rejected yesterday morning – but it was a pyrrhic victory for the Education Committee as the States later voted against funding its £130m. plan to reorganise secondary and further education.
Guernsey could be electing a new government within the next few months after members of the Policy & Resources Committee gave a shock response to their proposals for a goods and services tax being shot down again by fellow politicians.
As I have often said, over and over again, the curse of the columnist is the copy deadline.
Hospital modernisation has become more likely to continue, after States members voted 20-19 yesterday to put the project into more of the options available to them during this week’s tax and spending debate.
This week’s States debate could prove fit for a big screen – complete with superheroes, drama and a rebranded tax trilogy, says Deputy Gavin St Pier
THERE are three reasons why the States should halt plans to move the sixth form centre away from Les Varendes, according to the deputy who is seconding an amendment to keep it there.
PLANS to move the sixth-form centre from Les Varendes to La Mare de Carteret and then to Les Ozouets appear to be hanging in the balance this weekend.
Guernsey must break the cycle of deputies getting elected on the basis of misleading manifesto promises, no matter how well meaning, says Sarah Hansmann Rouxel
A NEW model of secondary and post-16 education agreed two years ago could be halted by the States next week.
EDUCATION president Andrea Dudley-Owen has urged the States to make sure that teachers are not distracted by crumbling buildings and inadequate school facilities.
EDUCATION has rejected requests to publish each school’s GCSE results for English and maths separately.
Education will be thrown into disarray if the States fails to fund a £119m. plan to reorganise secondary and post-16 studies.
