Friday 13 January 2017
The Committee for Education, Sport & Culture is reassuring education staff and professional associations that it will be seeking their views on options for the future structure of secondary and post-16 education.
'The States Members' workshop we have arranged for 25th January is just the start of the process not the end of it,' said Committee President, Deputy Paul Le Pelley.
'We have been given a very clear direction from this Assembly that we are to work up, in detail, plans for a three-school all-ability structure for secondary education. There are a number of options that will deliver this direction but that may, for example, have different consequences for other areas such as post-16 education. The Committee needs to consider the pros and cons of all the possible three school models and we are starting with gathering the initial thoughts of our political colleagues as they will be the ones to make the final decision.
'The views of the education profession will form an important part of the Committee's deliberations and we are in the process of developing plans for how we can best gather those views,' said Deputy Le Pelley.
'On behalf of the Committee I would like to reassure the NASUWT, NUT and other unions that their views are important and that we would like to work in partnership with them to deliver a structure in line with the States Resolutions that will provide the best we can for our children and young people, our staff, our parents and the wider community.'
