Teaching posts cut at Beaulieu
Wednesday 30th March 2011, 2:56PM BST.
VOLUNTARY redundancies and a rise in fees have been announced at one of the Island’s fee-paying schools in a bid to meet a proposed reduction in its States grant.
Beaulieu Convent School would not reveal how many teachers had agreed to take redundancy but said that the savings it would make, coupled with a six per cent rise in fees – almost £100 a term – would allow the school to cope with an anticipated reduction in States funding.
The school, which has both a primary and secondary provision and is currently celebrating its 60th anniversary year, has also reduced the working hours for a number of staff and is not replacing others when they retire.
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DISGUSTING ……… once again we are playing with out children’s educations !! and of those who are taking this “VOLUNTARY” redundancy how many of them will now be on income support because they are no longer working ?????? or are they all retirement age ?? I doubt it from what I have heard, easy option not much thought process going on as always.
Time for change me thinks ! Im just very glad that I don’t have to worry about primary education with my children.
Lets hope that all those who have opted to leave find a job within the states schools ! Good luck to them all.
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Here we go again second rate political decisions by second rate politicians; can’t get the right pay scale for the new hospital man either:or… was that intentional in the hope no one would notice. Anthoer one under the carpet!!????
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You pay your money for a supposed better education.
Your choice, stop bleating and sell your 4×4 to pay for it.
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I would really query the statement that the cut in teachers is due to the drop in states funding. From what I understand all schools Private and States have been subjected to a ‘value for money’ review by Ofsted inspectors. The results of which are based on financial information from the previous years funding – which would include the states subsidy.
This raises many questions but the main one for me would be, if the school is not offering value for money why are we, as tax payers, funding this?
If we are, quite rightly in my opinion, looking for accountability from our states schools (and there have been many unfair, inaccurate and down right nasty responses to and about this) then it is only fair that the same accountability is expected in all areas from the private sector schools as well.
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