MOST people agree that now is not the right time to scrap the 11-plus exam, a Guernsey Press online survey has shown.

YEAR 6 students will receive their 11-plus results on Saturday 26 May after Education struck a deal with Guernsey Post to deliver them.

A PROPOSAL to drop English and maths exams from the 11-plus is misguided, Chamber of Commerce president Julian Winser has said.

A CONSULTATION on whether the 11-plus should be trimmed could be hijacked by those who want it scrapped altogether, deputies opposed to selection have warned.

FOR two hours on yesterday’s radio phone-in the Education minister laid the blame for everything that is wrong with schooling in Guernsey at the door of a decision made a decade ago.

A PROPOSAL to cut public funding for the colleges has reignited the 11-plus debate, according to one States member.

LAST week saw two events that revealed some people’s irrational attachment to the trappings of former societies, even when they have little relevance to our own.

FOLK Festival officials will discuss whether Sark could cope with more visitors after the sell-out event attracted 1,500 to the island.

ABOUT 500 11-year-olds will find out tomorrow where they will be going to school from September.