"Paws and review" debate should start today

Monday 02 March 2020

Debate on the future of secondary education will continue today, but might not reach a conclusion until tomorrow.

Debate is commencing this morning with Education's amendment to the "pause and review" requete.

If approved, the amendment will set up a debate early in the next States term about whether further space should be added at the 11-18 colleges.

It is a bid to address staff concerns that there is a lack of space, especially in the sixth form and recreational areas, at the two 1,400-capacity school buildings.

However, the creation of further space would require funding above and beyond the £157m. already allocated to the transformation programme. 

Pictured: If the amendment is successful, it will replace all the proposals in the requete, making the original call for a pause and review null and void.

If it fails, debate will move on to an amendment by Deputies Jennifer Merrett and Lindsay de Sausmarez, which aims to rule out any possible return to selection in the event that the requete is successful.

Unless there are any further amendments, debate will then turn to the requete itself, which unlikely to debated until the afternoon at the earliest.

There are also requetes on the future of the L'Ancresse Wall, the publication of a 5G policy letter and the call for a Tribunal of Enquiry into an Education appointment. 

Pictured top: A canine protester outside the Royal Court last week.