Date: 23 September 2009 BROCKLEBANK : WORRYING FLATLINING OF FIFE EXAM RESULTS Newly published statistics relating to this summer’s Higher exam results have shown that Fife sits in the bottom third of a league table of S5 students achieving three or more Highers.
Commenting on the news, Conservative MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Ted Brocklebank, said;
“It is very disappointing that only 20% of S5 pupils in Fife have managed to achieve three or more Highers this summer. This is below the national average of 23% and what is particularly worrying is that we have seen no improvement in Fife’s results over the past three years.
“The Fife Council Plan set out a vision to improve educational attainment and achievement by 2011 but this is clearly not happening. The Council must urgently look again at what it can do to raise standards in Fife’s schools.
“The exam results were better in North East Fife but it is still imperative that the SNP/LibDem led Council administration stop playing politics and commit to building a new secondary school at the Tay Bridgehead. The daily bussing of 850 pupils from the Tay Bridgehead and Leuchars area to Madras College is not conducive in allowing these students to get the best out of their education. This disservice must end if pupils are to reach their full potential.”
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