E/1982/3/Add.16
English Page 16
B.
Sark */
(Population:
200; area:
2 sq. miles)
General
1.
The Education (Guernsey) Law of 1970 does not apply to Sark.
The Island Parliament is known as "The Chief Pleas", and education is controlled through its Education Committee.
2.
ARTICLE 13
Paragraph 1
The Education Committee organizes education through three progressive stages known as infant, junior and senior, to ensure that the education provided is adequate for the needs of the children.
3.
Paragraph 2 (a) and (b)
4. The Education Committee is obliged to provide full-time education for all children between the ages of five and fourteen years. This education is provided free of charge (Resolution of Chief Pleas, 11 February 1948).
5.
Secondary education is provided in Sark for those eleven to fourteen years of age, with an option to fifteen years of age. In addition those children who would benefit by a more academic education may be transferred to Guernsey schools at the age of eleven years plus. The cost of this education provision is borne by Sark.
6.
Those children in need of additional vocational training are given the opportunity of attending Guernsey schools or the College of Further Education at the ages of fourteen plus and fifteen years plus respectively. The cost is met by Sark (Resolution of Chief Pleas, 18 May 1948; Michaelmas, 1973).
Paragraph 2 (c), (d) and (e)
7. Those who will benefit from higher education are grant aided by Sark to attend establishments in the United Kingdom.
8. Fundmental education is provided free of charge for those few adults who require it. This is a voluntary arrangement.
9.
A system of schools at appropriate levels is already established.
Supplementary information is contained in the annex to the present report.
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