Vibert aims to continue as Education Minister

Wednesday 20th August 2008, 2:54PM BST.

EDUCATION Minister Mike Vibert is to stand for re-election.

The Senator, who has been in the States since 1996, says that he intends to stand in the Senatorials and wants to carry on in his job as Education Minister.

The 58-year-old former teacher and journalist served two terms as a Deputy in St Brelade No 2 before finishing fourth in the 2002 Senatorial elections. He has been in charge of Education – which has a proposed budget of £98 million for next year – for six years as president of the Education, Sport and Culture Committee and as Education Minister.

He said. ‘I feel that there is more work to do, particularly at Education, Sport and Culture. We are working on a ten-year plan to get a general agreement on the way education should go in the long term.’