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 refused to release GCSE data that would show whether local schools really do outperform their English counterparts.

DEPUTIES say they have been forced to move a petition after widow’s pension pleas were rejected by Social Security.

DEPUTY Jane Stephens was hospitalised after passing out during the lunch break of yesterday’s States meeting.

FORMER Le Rondin School head teacher Jane Stephens has been appointed as the States’ first disability champion.

EDUCATION has been criticised for taking no advice from planners over its recommendation to close St Sampson’s Infants School.

EDUCATION did not have enough information to decide to close St Sampson’s Infants, according to one of its chief critics.

THE woman whose case brought it about has urged the need for action following the review of the Education Department.