The Government of Jersey offers means-tested tuition-fee and maintenance grants to island HE students for most degrees up to £9,250 pa (as of 2020–21).

[3] The education system is roughly similar to that used in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

[5] In the 1590s, Laurens Baudains, a wealthy farmer from St. Martin, lobbied the monarch and the States of Jersey to support a scheme for the establishment of a college.

The aim of the project was to instruct the youth of Jersey in "grammar, Latin, the liberal arts and religion".

In the 1860s, the ancient grammar schools of St. Mannelier and St. Anastase closed and their endowments were later used to fund scholarships at Victoria College.

Victoria College had been opened for boys, on the pattern of English public schools, in 1852.

Jersey people of influence gathered at the Grove Place Wesleyan Chapel in Saint Helier on 28 November 1879 and decided to set up a limited liability company to further a plan to provide a college for girls in Jersey.

Towards the end of the 19th century Catholic teaching and nursing orders – the De La Salle brothers, Jesuits and Little Sisters of the Poor – settled in Jersey.

According to Chief Minister John Le Fondré, on average, 1200 Jersey students leave the island to study at higher education institutions in the UK.

In particular students can study at Highlands for the two-year Foundation Degree in Financial Services and for BSc Social Sciences, both validated by the University of Plymouth.

Private sector higher-education providers include the Jersey International Business School.

18  In provided schools, students must by law attend a Christian act of worship at least once a week, unless their parent opts them out.[10]: art.