A number of the 13 candidates took the opportunity of being in the parish home to many of the Island’s schools and colleges to focus on the subject and say where they thought the future of education in Jersey lay.
Sir Philip Bailhache, David Richardson and Lyndon Farnham said that the future was with a Channel Islands or Jersey university to attract students to the Island and improve training for local people without the expense of living away from home.
Sir Philip also used the evening to condemn two education policies that have hit the headlines during the past year – the decision to cut the subsidies of fee-paying schools and ‘secrecy’ surrounding examination results.
• See Friday’s JEP for full report
