‘More debate on education needed’
Thursday 24th February 2011, 2:58PM GMT.
Deputy roy Le Hérissier
JERSEY needs an open and wide-ranging debate about the future of schooling, according to the head of the Scrutiny panel responsible for looking at education policy.
Deputy Roy Le Hérissier, a former lecturer who chairs the Education and Home Affairs Scrutiny Panel, says that in the wake of the publication of the breakdown of exam results, Jersey as a whole needs to be open about the issues facing schools.
He said: ‘If there are problems within the education system, let’s discuss them. But how on earth can parents make intelligent judgments about schools if they are not told the results?
‘I have got no problem if they are told the results within the context of the schools but the alternative is that the rumour machine starts working and parents make judgments based on that.’
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Truth is we need more like you Roy…Autumn coming….elections..we have the talent please come forward…
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It is looking more and more like Jersey parents have been subsidising the education system in Jersey when sending their children to private schools.
Put another way, Jersey provides sub standard free education and the only way to get a standard of education equal to that of the UK is to pay fees.
Putting up the cost of the only schools which provide a standard of education equal to that of free education in the UK is in my opinion an unjust way of increasing revenues.
There will of course be arguments that we are not comparing like for like but these are hard numbers not opinions, averaged out over all UK regions including the least wealthy regions of the UK.
There is the classic line “Education is not all about exam results” which is true, exam results are how you measure education results. I feel sure there will be another measure the education dept would like to use now I just wonder what it will be.
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Roy was beaten to the post of Education Minister by “519 votes” farmer James Reed. Shows the calibre of our politicians. Clueless !
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Considering he is a farmer, it is surprising James Reed doesn’t notice when he is stood well and truly in ‘it’. When it look like it, smells like and feels like it, it probably is ‘it’ James!
Any credibility he may ever have had from his ‘rotten borough’ constituency election must have vanished by now. He can get back to his livestock after the next election and leave the education of humans to those more able
Maybe he has a stable of nodding donkeys able to replace the current ‘cabinet’ of self serving mates also know as the COM.
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Like a gale full of WIND. Roy cant half talk !!!!
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In some ways I guess it’s a good thing that the vast discrepancy between fee paying selective schools and the all inclusive states schools has been highlighted. It reflects the two/three/four tier system the establishment has propped up for many years. Anyone who understands the education system in Jersey will not be shocked by these meaningless statistics. It’s just the way things are. You have those who pass exams at 11 to get into the elite semi-private schools, those who get a place at 14 to go to Hautlieu by getting 109 or above in their SATS tests (a very poor way of judging intelligence btw). You have those students who go to faith schools, often because they are not quite clever enough for the top schools and then there are those who go to our state schools. And despite the knock backs, there are many children who do exceptionally well at all our state schools. The state schools work with an extremely diverse range of needs and abilities, some schools with a great deal of highly challenging students. The fact that some students, after all the very best students have been ‘creamed off’ at one stage or another achieve 5 GCSE’s at C or above is quite inspiring. These schools cannot be compared with Secondary education in the UK. In fact, they cannot be compared anywhere in the world as nowhere on this planet has such a diverse and discriminatory approach to education. If the system changes to support all children equally, then the education system could be properly scrutinised. Until that point, this set of statistics published by the JEP will encourage even less able, parent supported children to use their local school.
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@ blueskythinking
“You have those students who go to faith schools, often because they are not quite clever enough for the top schools”
What a complete load of unsubstantiated nonsense. Chosing to send your child to either de la salle or beaulieu has nothing to do with the child being “not quite clever enough”, has to do with many factors, including the religious aspect, the ethos of the schools, (the ethos of Vic is not for many and the fees for st michaels/st georges prohibits many), parents having gone to the schools, and as the faith schools are non selective and the other fee paying schools are, comparing the results clearly demonstrates this.
And at the end of the day you can make as many excuses as you want, the fact that only 18% at Grainville get 5 A* to C has to be failure and should not be acceptable to anyone
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