Letter: Catholic school was a pioneer

IN HIS interesting Insight article "No longer strangers in a strange land" (5 September), Professor Tom Devine refers to the "the coming of comprehensive education in the 1960s". The first Catholic comprensive school in Scotland, St Augustine's Secondary School, Milton, Glasgow, was formally opened on Thursday 9 Septmber 1954 by the then Lord Provost of Glasgow, Thomas A Kerr, and given a blessing by the then Archbishop of Glasgow, Donald A Campbell.

This moves the advent of comprehensive education in Scotland back to when "the building of huge housing schemes" drew attention to the need for innovative and just provision of schools designed to meet the educational requirement of their new communities.

Deirdre Murray, Glasgow