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ONLY SOLUTION IS TO BUILD NEW SCHOOL
MADRAS College rector Lindsay Matheson has welcomed councillors' recognition that something must be done about accommodation at the split site St Andrews school.
Describing the recent decision by Fife Council's Children's Services Committee to continue to look for a single campus solution for the school while at the same time considering the areas from which it draws its pupils, he said he thought councillors had been "broadly positive.''
Only 30 per cent of pupils at Madras actually live in St Andrews and calls have long been made for a new school to be built to cater for children from the area around the Tay Bridge.
Committee chair Councillor Tom Dair has stressed that the location of a second high school in north east Fife hinges on the outcome of the Fife Structure Plan which will shape the way communities develop over the next 20 years.
However no money has been budgeted for the new school in the next five years by Fife Council, currently facing a near 4 million education shortfall. Mr Dair said that would change if partnership funding from the public and private sectors (PPP) could be identified.
Speaking to the Citizen after the meeting, Mr Matheson said he believed there would be scope, particularly in St Andrews, for people with shared interests in the building of a new school which would serve the interests of the community and the school catchement area.
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