By yesterday it had received just over 300 views on YouTube – which does not include those watching the 3m42 video on the States own website or through social media.
Above: Les Ozouets Post 16 campus fly through.
The video shows the exterior of the post-16 campus as it could look in the future if the States approve the plans and funding for the multi-million pound project.
With money growing increasingly tight, questions have been asked via social media about how the development will be paid for, and why ESC is pushing ahead with its preferred plan to move the Sixth Form Centre from Les Varendes to Les Ozouets.
Deputy Andy Cameron is one long-standing opponent of those plans and Deputy Gavin St Pier has further cemented his own opposition to the plan by posting on X (formally Twitter) to suggest that “with costs spiralling and no contractor, madness of moving Sixth Form from its purpose built site to ‘temporary’ site earmarked for closure may be final nail (sic)” in the project’s coffin.
Not everyone is as opposed to the plan as Deputies Cameron and St Pier with some commenters calling on the States to “get on with it”.
The ESC President, Deputy Andrea Dudley-Owen said: “The video shows our ambitious vision for post-16 education.
“It is the long-awaited campus which will improve on-island further and higher education. The campus will herald a change in the way the community views and values both academic and technical, vocational and professional pathways.”
Deputy Dudley-Owen further explained that “more than a decade of uncertainty about the model of secondary and post-16 education, surrounding the removal of selection via the 11+, has been extremely damaging and caused instability across our whole Education system.
“During this time, the standard of facilities at some of our sites has fallen far below what students deserve and the community expects.”
Pictured: You can read Deputy Andrea Dudley-Owen’s statement on Les Ozouets Campus in full HERE.
The plans for Les Ozouets Campus will include the long-awaited Guernsey Institute headquarters with sport and additional performing art facilities, along with the stand-along Sixth Form Centre.
In total the construction of the Post-16 campus will cost just shy of £100m.
Around 1/5th of the cost will be spent on the Sixth Form Centre, with the majority of the total cost being spent on specialist facilities intended to offer a range of professional, vocational and technical courses.
The States will next be discussing these plans in October, when they debate and vote on the island’s Funding & Investment Plan.
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