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Paragraph 1

1.

The Education Council is obliged to organize education through three progressive stages known as primary, secondary and further education, and to ensure that efficient education is offered throughout the phases in order to meet the needs of the population (Education (Guersey) Law 1970, part 3).

Paragraph 2 (a)

2. The Council is obliged to provide full-time primary education, which is free of charge for all pupils between the ages of five and eleven years. The Council has also to ensure that there are sufficient schools for this purpose (Education

(Guernsey) Law 1970, parts 4 (1) (a) and 16).

Paragraph 2 (b)

3. The Education Council has a similar obligation to provide full-time secondary education for children between the ages of eleven and fifteen years, and to ensure that there are sufficient schools available for this purpose. It is also the Council's duty to ensure that primary and secondary education is provided in separate schools (Education (Guernsey) Law 1970, parts 4 (1) (b), 4 (2) (a) and 16).

4. Education in all schools maintained by the States through the Education Council is free (Education (Guernsey) Law 1970, part 48).

5. The Education Council has made provision for full and part-time education for those over school-leaving age both in respect of vocational training and recreational activities, on the basis of their ability and willingness to profit by those facilities (Education (Guernsey) Law 1970, part 23).

6. Employers of States registered apprentices who release those apprentices for further education and training at the College of Further Education receive a grant from the States, which is equivalent to the wages paid by the employers to the apprentices for the times they are in attendance at the College. Fees are not charged for anyone under the age of twenty-one who is released by his/her employer to attend vocational courses at the College of Further Education (States of Guernsey, States of Deliberation, Resolution XI of 29 April 1981).

* A list of documentation provided to supplement the present report is contained in the annex.