Gordon Brown is without doubt one of the great success stories of Scottish schooling. While Sir Tony Blair attended Fettes in Edinburgh, a boarding school now charging upward of £31,000 a year, Brown attended the state-run Kirkcaldy High. Despite the financial gap between the schools, Kirkcaldy arguably provided a better academic education.
Yet more than half a century on, Scottish education is failing young Scots and depriving them of the chances offered to the former prime minister.
