:00:08. > :00:14.Failing parents and children - calls for a radical shake-up of the
:00:14. > :00:18.way Jersey schools' performance is measured.
:00:18. > :00:24.Plus nose in, push back - what will a new parking system at Guernsey
:00:24. > :00:34.airport mean for passengers? And from the sea to our homes - how
:00:34. > :00:42.
:00:42. > :00:45.and why Jersey Water is going back There's growing pressure to change
:00:45. > :00:48.the way the performance of Jersey's secondary schools is measured. It
:00:48. > :00:52.comes as individual school GCSE results have been published this
:00:52. > :00:55.week for the first time. They show two of the island's non-selective
:00:55. > :01:00.secondary schools performed worse than almost all other schools in
:01:00. > :01:06.England and Wales. We'll hear from one of those calling for a level
:01:06. > :01:12.playing field in a moment, but first, here's Amy Harris.
:01:12. > :01:21.On the face of it, it looks pretty good. Across the island, 58% of
:01:21. > :01:25.pupils got five passes at GCSE, including maths and English. But
:01:25. > :01:29.this week, for the first time, all the schools have published
:01:29. > :01:33.individual figures. We must remember this is a very narrow
:01:33. > :01:43.academic measure, so there is no surprise that certain schools do
:01:43. > :01:50.better than others. For example, fee-paying schools got 96%. And a
:01:50. > :01:53.selective school got 97%, but no surprises either that pupils at
:01:53. > :02:03.schools who don't pay for their education scored poorly. In
:02:03. > :02:03.
:02:03. > :02:10.particular, pass rates have dropped to just 13%. Those in charge,
:02:10. > :02:17.though, say the results do not reflect the full story. Some of the
:02:17. > :02:24.processes, systems, quality of teaching and learning in schools
:02:24. > :02:31.are good. We know that those are strong at schools. But quite
:02:31. > :02:36.clearly, if you reduce it down to a narrow indicator such as five
:02:36. > :02:41.passes, then it doesn't bring out all the other good things. But the
:02:41. > :02:45.selective system makes it tough for parents to compare the quality of
:02:45. > :02:49.teaching at different schools. The one measure on offer is not ideal,
:02:49. > :02:52.but at the moment, it is the only one universally available.
:02:52. > :02:55.Well one former Jersey headteacher is calling for a radical shake-up
:02:55. > :02:57.in the way the performance of all Jersey schools are measured.
:02:57. > :03:02.Richard Rolfe retired last month after eight-and-a-half years as
:03:02. > :03:05.head of Le Roquier. Over his 23- year teaching career, he has also
:03:05. > :03:10.taught in the UK, where he thinks a better system is in place as it
:03:10. > :03:17.assesses how every school performs in relation to every pupil. He came
:03:17. > :03:23.into the BBC studios earlier to explain.
:03:23. > :03:28.In terms of the assessment and progress, it is different in Jersey.
:03:28. > :03:34.In the UK, they used to value added and contextual value added. In
:03:34. > :03:39.Jersey, at the moment, it is all about a single measure of exam
:03:39. > :03:44.performance. So the UK system takes into account at the level at
:03:44. > :03:49.children start at? I absolutely. So if your are at a school serving
:03:49. > :03:54.children in deprived areas, all you have children with literacy issues,
:03:54. > :03:59.and you are hoping to educate them, they have a different starting
:03:59. > :04:05.point compared to schools that have selected children on their ability.
:04:05. > :04:09.So if you had improved the chances of a child who started off from a
:04:09. > :04:12.low-income family, and they achieved good results at GCSE, what
:04:12. > :04:19.you are saying is that improvement is a measure of the school's
:04:19. > :04:22.performance? Absolutely. You have to measure that performance. You
:04:22. > :04:26.want the best for each child, but as a measure of performance, you
:04:26. > :04:31.could measure a school's performance on the basis of
:04:31. > :04:37.aggregating all the schools, and then comparing what that cohort of
:04:37. > :04:42.children do when they finished the school. If it sounds fairly
:04:42. > :04:47.straightforward. So why isn't Jersey doing so well? Are I don't
:04:47. > :04:52.know. It is a very simple measure to put in place. Even if they do
:04:52. > :04:58.put it into place, it is very dangerous just to use one measure
:04:59. > :05:05.anyway. You need a range of measure -- measures including attendance
:05:05. > :05:11.and none exam subject. We should be measuring the performance across
:05:11. > :05:15.the board such as the arts, music, and sports. But the measures are
:05:15. > :05:17.simple to construct. Richard Rolfe talking to me earlier.
:05:17. > :05:20.We tried to ask the current Education Minister why all
:05:20. > :05:23.secondary schools aren't benchmarked in the same way as UK
:05:23. > :05:27.schools but he has been in the States all day. We'll try again
:05:27. > :05:31.tomorrow. A former politician has been jailed
:05:31. > :05:34.by Jersey's Magistrates Court for failing to do community service.
:05:34. > :05:37.45-year-old Stuart Syvret, seen here in the red tie arriving at
:05:37. > :05:41.court this afternoon, lost his appeal for a Contempt of Court
:05:42. > :05:46.conviction earlier this year. He agreed to do community service but
:05:46. > :05:50.didn't turn up. He was taken away by a prison van tonight and he will
:05:50. > :05:54.spend eight weeks in jail. Smoking in the grounds of
:05:54. > :05:57.Guernsey's hospitals is to be banned. The Princess Elizabeth,
:05:57. > :06:01.King Edward VII, and Castel Hospitals are to become smoke-free
:06:01. > :06:05.except for designated smoking shelters or locations. The change
:06:05. > :06:09.comes into effect in the New Year. It's believed to be the first ever
:06:09. > :06:14.ban on smoking in an open public area in Guernsey.
:06:14. > :06:18.Next tonight, "nose in, push back". The phrase may not mean much to you
:06:18. > :06:21.now, but it could end up adding to the cost of a flight in or out of
:06:21. > :06:25.Guernsey. It's a new system for aircraft to park on the airport's
:06:25. > :06:28.apron, and it's coming in early next year. The States has agreed to
:06:28. > :06:37.pay for it, but airlines are worried they will be the ones
:06:37. > :06:41.footing the bill. Positioning itself for take-off,
:06:41. > :06:49.this aircraft sell but manoeuvres from its stand on to the runway,
:06:49. > :06:53.but from February, Ed -- airplanes will have to be towed backwards.
:06:53. > :06:58.During the be development of the airfield, planes will have to park
:06:58. > :07:03.nose in it like this, so they can fit all the aircraft on the apron.
:07:03. > :07:07.It means buying new equipment and training staff, and during the
:07:07. > :07:11.redevelopment, the States has agreed to pay for it. We are
:07:11. > :07:20.severely constrained by the amount of space here. Any additional space
:07:20. > :07:26.we can provide, would be good. not everyone is convinced this type
:07:26. > :07:31.of parking is it necessary. Guernsey authorities have been well
:07:31. > :07:37.aware of flight be's reticence to have nose in, push back, parking,
:07:38. > :07:43.as well as other airlines, because we can see no advantage for
:07:43. > :07:47.airlines to do this, and it would just lead to an increased cost,
:07:47. > :07:51.which unfortunately the passengers would have to pay. A aircraft will
:07:51. > :07:54.soon be parked like this at Guernsey Airport, but what we don't
:07:54. > :08:04.know it is whether it will carry on after the redevelopment and who
:08:04. > :08:06.
:08:06. > :08:08.will pay for it. There hasn't been enough rain to
:08:08. > :08:10.fill Jersey's reservoirs this autumn, so today, the island
:08:10. > :08:13.started turning the sea into drinking water. The desalination
:08:13. > :08:17.plant near Corbiere hasn't been used for five years. It costs about
:08:17. > :08:20.�4,000 a day to run, but can produce a third of the island's
:08:20. > :08:25.supply. So how does it work, and what has happened to all our rain?
:08:25. > :08:30.Our weatherman, David Braine, explains.
:08:30. > :08:36.Water has always been a problem for and what islands, without Lakes or
:08:36. > :08:42.river systems, we have a challenge to supply adequate drinking water.
:08:42. > :08:49.One option is to take the sort out to sea water. Jersey water has used
:08:49. > :08:56.a desalination plant since 1970, and a repair work has meant water
:08:56. > :09:02.supplies are critical, but rainfall is also an issue. After a dry
:09:02. > :09:10.period, rainfall has been a low. The blue light show what we would
:09:10. > :09:15.normally expect to see, and the yellow what actually has happened.
:09:15. > :09:20.It is a similar picture for Guernsey, with this is that --
:09:20. > :09:26.substantial lack of rain in the last two months. Today, the
:09:26. > :09:31.desalination plant will start to produce fresh water. It is a very
:09:31. > :09:39.expensive operation. We try not to run the plant unless we really have
:09:39. > :09:44.to. We last ran it in 2006, and 2003, so it is a standby plant used
:09:44. > :09:49.only when necessary. With climate change and an increased demand in
:09:49. > :09:54.water, how will we cope in the future? Desalination is one option,
:09:54. > :09:57.but we might just need to be more careful with the water we have.
:09:57. > :10:07.David Braine and Emily Wood there, explaining what the weather does to
:10:07. > :10:12.
:10:12. > :10:17.We have a very large area of low pressure over the West Atlantic.
:10:17. > :10:23.Quite breezy as well overnight with that heavy rain overnight. There
:10:23. > :10:28.will be some dry weather in between, but the Friday, even though the
:10:28. > :10:34.winds ease off, a chance of catching a heavy shower. But
:10:34. > :10:39.tonight, it looks pretty wet for a time as the rain band makes its way
:10:39. > :10:45.across. It does clear away during the early hours of tomorrow morning.
:10:45. > :10:51.The southerly winds continue to bring in some fairly mild air. For
:10:51. > :10:56.tomorrow, there will be some dry and bright weather, but the showers
:10:56. > :11:03.at merging into a longer spell of rain. It is pretty wet for a time.
:11:03. > :11:13.A fairly brisk breeze as well. Tomorrow's maximum temperature is
:11:13. > :11:16.
:11:16. > :11:23.16 degrees. Occasional poor visibility. The winds south or
:11:23. > :11:31.south-easterly. Times of high water tomorrow. High tide at St Helier.
:11:31. > :11:37.High-tide will be at 1231. There is some fairly decent a swirl around
:11:37. > :11:43.as well. Quite clean away this generally. The outlook: A fair
:11:43. > :11:47.amount of wet weather, but there will be some of dry and sunny