24/06/2014 BBC Channel Islands News


24/06/2014

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Guernsey has announced major changes to the way students

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England is changing its GCSDs from 2015, meaning the

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island's Education Department has had to look at whether to do

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End of school exams are somdthing most of us will be familiar with.

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Students in Guernsey have traditionally followed the same

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The UK government has set out new plans for

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Young people deserve an education system to compete with the best in

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the world. We have gone to consultation and heard what we were

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told. We can announce that we will have examinations that suit and

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benefit all our students. Guernsey schools will

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offer the new English GCSEs with and the normal A*`G grades will be

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scrapped, But they will also offer

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other options, including

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GCSEs from Wales and Ireland, which are similar to those GCSE

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exams taken now, and other accredited

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vocational qualifications. There is a whole range, lots and

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lots of different types of qualifications, and it is about

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getting that fit right, bec`use of we just chose to go the route of

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English GCSEs we would be mtch more can train. `` constraint. It is

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about what is best for studdnts Some benefits `` will benefht from

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taking an exam which is 100$ of their work. Others will bendfit from

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being able to do coursework and have that taken into account.

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of this year's exams now finished, this is the moment most students

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Whilst the schools themselvds think how to adapt to the ndw system

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Guernsey's Heather Watson started her Wimbledon campaign in fhne style

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today, beating the Croatian Ajla Tomljanovic in two sets.

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Heather crashed out of the competition

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This year, she has the second week in her sights.

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Court Number Three might not be the largest show court at Whmbledon,

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but most of the 2,000 fans were here to cheer on Heather Watson

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Her first round opponent was, Croatian Aija Tomljanovic, who is

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in good form: she reached the final of last weeks Aegon International.

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But Watson is full of confidence too, having

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beaten a top 20 player for the first time at the same tournament.

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It started off well for Watson, serving well and taking her chances.

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That set the mood for the British number one as she broke serve again.

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What a performance from Heather Watson.

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The match lasted just over an hour, ghving

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the home crowd with their union and Guernsey flags plenty to cheer.

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I feel I have played a lot of matches, I have had a lot of wins, I

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have one two tournaments thhs year so far and I am pleased with my form

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and wants to keep it going. I love Court three. I think I was the first

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match to play on it a few ydars ago. The crowd was brilliant tod`y, so

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loud. Sometimes they are a bit quieter but today was good, the

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louder the better for me. An artificial pitch will bd laid at

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Jersey's Springfield Stadiul after a The initial application

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for a so`called 3G surface was rejected last month, but thdn

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the Planning Minister steppdd in, Around 50 games are held

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at Springfield Stadium everx season, and it also hosts

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the Muratti Vase Final. But all this action takes its

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toll on the grass surface. As you can see these are thd

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goalmouth areas, and there hs one at the other end, and around the

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perimeter area, this is what is happening with the pitch whdn it is

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only being played on 50 timds. That's why the Jersey Footb`ll

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Association want to replace this grass pitch with an artifichal one,

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so more matches can be playdd. We have plans to have the youth

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clubs, primary schools, using this during the day, and sports clubs

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using it in the night including the league clubs if they wish, `nd on

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the weekend we will have back`to`back games.

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But their application was rdjected by the Planning Applications Panel

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over concerns not about the pitch, but about

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Now the planning minister h`s stepped

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in, and told the JFA to plax on as long as his concerns are met

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I have put in a planning condition to ensure that informal use of the

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pictures taken into account as well as greater opportunities for

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sporting clubs as well. The other issue I have sorted is that there

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will be a whole host of othdr landscaping issues. What was

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proposed was fairly substandard in some respects.

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The minister has also decided to keep the chhldren's

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And while the fence that protects the artificial pitch may stop ad hoc

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kick`arounds, there'll be m`ny more football matches here.

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The 3G pitch should be readx for the Island Games next ydar.

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That's it from me. I'm back at 6:30pm tomorrow.

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I'll leave you with David Braine and the weather.

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Good evening. After all the talk of drought there is a change l`ter this

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week, and for those who needed to water their gardens over thd last

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week there is rain in the forecast. It is a long way away at thd moment

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and tomorrow is another find and dry day, more cloud with some stnny

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spells but gradually the high pressure is eroded away, ond line of

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cloud approaching from the West another from the north, which

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introduces fresher conditions overnight tonight. It will love

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through us in the morning and down to the Bay of Biscay, then lore

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cloud and rain settling into Thursday and Friday. Overnight

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tonight, initially cloud frde skies but patchy cloud floating in from

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the north`west. Overnight temperatures as low as 13, 40 five

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Fahrenheit. Tomorrow some stnny spells but also cloud, the remnant

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of the weather system creephng bike, still dry, top temperatures 19 or

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20, said fresher than today. That is the forecast towards the wedkend.

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More unsettled in their state `` on Thursday and Friday and gendrally a

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lot of cooler air coming in, cooler in the night and certainly during

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the day. In the second the TK forecast. From us, good night, and I

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leave you with the summary for tomorrow.

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with the summary. Turning more unsettled as

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with the summary. Turning more unsettle` as we head

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with the summary. Turning more unsettled as we head towar$s

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with the summary. Turning more unsettled as we head towards the

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weekend. Good evening. After what has been a

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glorious few weeks of summer sunshine for many of us, things are

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about to change over the next 2 hours. We are seeing the change

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marked by the weather front on the satellite image. To the south of

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that,

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