A HEADLINE on our weekly Inside Politics column yesterday read: Accountability is the next big challenge. It was a six-word summary of an interview with the Treasury minister based on the value to the island of the States Strategic Plan, what it has achieved – and what more needs to be done.

THOSE who expect the Education minister to go quietly in tomorrow’s resignation debate do not understand the conviction at the heart of this politician.

MOST of Guernsey’s Education board has offered to resign over poor GCSE results and their initial refusal to divulge the statistics for individual schools. It’s puzzling why they even tried to keep those results secret when that policy was clearly unsustainable. Drawing a line in the sand and then rapidly backing down is the worst [...]

AN UNDERSTANDABLE wave of anger has engulfed the Education Department as islanders learned that two of three high schools are failing.

EDUCATION minister Carol Steere has offered her resignation in the wake of her handling of the GCSE saga.

EDUCATION should be forced to undergo a rigorous external inspection after information it was required to release showed two of Guernsey’s high schools are failing to meet standards set in England.

EDUCATION’S response to written questions about GCSE data and high school standards has failed to reassure the deputy who submitted them.

PARENTS, students and employers need solid information to have confidence in the service provided by Education, a former head teacher has said.

EDUCATION has bowed to pressure and released GCSE statistics directly comparable to England.

FORMER La Mare de Carteret head Jenny Tasker has no doubt that statistics which show a decline in GCSE grades are accurate.