POLITICIANS who publicly criticised officers of the Education Department, including director of education Derek Neale, have been condemned by the former minister.

THE Education minister’s resignation will allow the board to begin implementing recommendations in the Mulkerrin report without distraction, Deputy Robert Sillars has said.

DIFFICULT conversations should have been had about the way Education was being run, it has been claimed.

EDUCATION minister Carol Steere’s position appeared untenable yesterday in the face of calls from politicians and members of the public for her to resign.

MULTIPLE failings in Education have been confirmed by an independent report released today.

FOUR months after Education assured islanders that the new Les Beaucamps High School was on track, it has had to admit its opening will be delayed.

EIGHT years before two secondary schools achieved poor GCSE results, Education was told that the service was failing the island’s young people.

EDUCATION minister Carol Steere yesterday backed out of a media interview set up to defend the partial resignation of her beleaguered director of education.

GUERNSEY’S under-pressure director of education has resigned – and moved straight into a newly created post, it emerged yesterday.

DEPUTY Robert Sillars pledged to tackle any problems within Education after he won a seat on the department yesterday.