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A UNION has blamed a rise in stress-related illness among teachers on recent increases in workload and has called upon the Education Department to tackle the issue.

JERSEY students have outperformed their counterparts in England in this year’s GCSE exams – a week after Island pupils eclipsed the country’s A-level results.

PRESSURE is building on Education Minister Rod Bryans to scrap planned cuts to free nursery care, with some politicians considering voting against ministerial spending plans in protest at the ‘damaging cuts’ to education.

JERSEY schools should ‘lead the way’ and introduce lessons to educate students about organ transplantation, a charity which aims to increase the number of Islanders on the donor register has said.

A BACKBENCHER has conceded defeat in his fight to maintain 20 free hours of nursery care for all parents.

JERSEY is the most expensive place in the British Isles for childcare for under-twos – with nursery costs ten per cent higher than in London, the JEP can reveal.

FREE nursery education could be scrapped for families earning £100,000 and over after the States rejected a proposal to ask the Education Minister to re-think the controversial proposals.

PLANS to cut free nursery education in Jersey for families earning more than £75,000 per year could be scrapped, with the matter due to be debated in the States this week.

THE States will be increasing the amount of money it allocates to higher education, it has been announced.

THE Education Minister is facing a backlash over his revised plans to means-test private nursery care and has been accused of showing a ‘complete lack of respect’ for the Education policy Scrutiny process.