GROUND-BREAKING SCHOOL PLAN
Published: 4th Dec 2009
MEMBERS of Fife Council's Policy, Finance and Asset Management Committee have agreed the terms of a framework memorandum for joint investment between the local authority and St Andrews University for a new building for Madras College.
As part of the Building Fife’s Future programme the council has already agreed to use £40m from the Capital Investment Plan to build a new school for Madras College.
Now, following much discussion with the university and other stakeholders, the memorandum document, which could see a new school built on university land at the sports hall, has been drawn up.
The outlined partnership will also see the university investing £10m into improving the sports hall which the school would use.
Councillor Peter Grant, leader of Fife Council, told St Andrews News on Thursday: "Today's decision confirms the commitment of Fife Council and St Andrews University to work together to produce an educational facility unlike anything else in Scotland. I welcome the fact that there was unanimous cross party support at today's meeting. This has the potential to deliver incalculable benefits to generations of young people."
Dr Louise Richardson, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of St Andrews, said: “This relationship between a university and a secondary school would be unique to Scotland.
“I believe the vision for the new Madras is a worthy continuation of Scotland’s long and proud tradition of innovation in education and could serve as a model for future partnerships between schools, universities, colleges and industry.
“By taking a school to the heart of a university science campus we are signalling with Fife Council our ambition to nurture new generations of science-literate students and to act as a catalyst for a closer bond between our secondary and higher education sectors.
“I am hugely excited by the possibilities this ambitious projects presents for students, staff, the community of St Andrews and Scotland.”
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