No Going Back
BBC Radio Scotland
Broadcast on 19 March 2009 (repeated 22 March)
How a new secondary school in Kinlochbervie changed the community forever.
Prior to the opening of Kinlochbervie High School in 1995, young people from North West Sutherland went to high school in Golspie and Dornoch where they boarded in hostels. This was the experience of the parents and grandparents of many of our pupils. Several were interviewed for this program.
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From the BBC News web site
Schooling far from home revisited A practice of sending children from a remote north west Sutherland community miles away to finish their school education has been revisited. Radio Scotland's No Going Back series spoke to former pupils who left their homes in Kinlochbervie to go to secondary schools in east Sutherland. The programme's makers also spoke to a former warden of one of the hostels where the children stayed. The situation continued until a high school was built in the 1990s. From Kinlochbervie, it is a 140-mile round trip to where the hostels were in the east Sutherland towns of Golspie and Dornoch. A high school was build tin Kinlochbervie in 1995 following years of campaigning by parents.
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