National Association of Headteachers general secretary David Hart is in the Island today to talk to heads and deputy heads about the expected results of the 14-19 curriculum review in the UK – a separate version of which is being carried out here – and the increasing workload on teachers.
All but a handful of heads and their deputies in the Island are members of the NAHT.Mr Hart said that the review was likely to point towards a baccalaureate-style system that would be less dependent on exam testing, and which would place more emphasis on a broad curriculum and some kind of service to the community.’The States of Jersey would have to spend more money on the new system,’ said Mr Hart.
‘Every school in the UK will have to look seriously at whether it has got the appropriate resources to support a broader 14-19 curriculum.’I am sure that in Jersey education is seen as a top priority just as it is in England.
Maybe you do not quite have the “”education, education, education”” as a perpetual political theme, but it does not mean to say that it is not seen as important.’
