The Highlands' best-known independent education centre has a new website www.mftcollege.co.uk

Moray Firth Tutorial College opened in August 2011, at 94 Academy Street, Inverness, offering a wide range of classes and courses, as well as private tuition at home or at our Tutorial College.  Click on our website above for more info.

 

MORAY FIRTH SCHOOL
Moray Firth School opened in 2002 as a small independent school (Scottish Charity SCO32771) some 10 miles from Inverness in the Scottish Highlands.  It ran very successfully for eight years then took a "gap" year from July 2010 in order to relocate to Inverness. 

From the start, MFS had hoped to open in Inverness but this had proved impossible.  Then, in spring 2010, the school was invited to work with Highlands and Islands Enterprise and plan a move to its new Inverness Campus, being constructed for the University of the Highlands and Islands and other organisations.

Planning and funding such a move would be a major task and would have to include selling the school's current building as well as organising the expansion of the School's education programme from ages 5-14 to an all-through school for 3-18 year olds.  Eventually, it was decided that the only way to cope with all this was a "gap" year and in June 2010 the school closed temporarily.

MFS and HIE's Campus management team worked closely together for nine months to plan the move and design a new building.  Then, in Feburary 2011, the HIE Board took the decision not to proceed with the proposal to re-locate MFS on Campus, citing concerns about funding for UHI Inverness College, a "perceived reputational risk" should MFS arrive first on Campus rather than a major stakeholder such as the College, and that, while the School was a model others might follow, HIE should wait to see what the Scottish government might wish to do with education in the next few years.  

Moray Firth School remains in abeyance, but its principal continues to seek a new home in Inverness.  If suitable land or other property is found, the School will reopen.  It cannot be denied, however, that with development land selling at upwards of £1m per acre, we do not know when this may happen.   We hope that once Inverness Campus is established we may again be given the opportunity to move there.