Creating his own 'summer school' on the island of Scalpay ... After 'Mike' was caught smoking and drinking prefects were told to administer the cane. Campbell recalls how he had been 'surprised ...

"The strokes [of the cane] were always no more than five ... It is apparent that some errant prefects go against the school regulations and punish students without the knowledge of the administration.

Among them was our elderly boarding school prefect who firmly believed ... The offender would be made to bend over a chair and the prefect’s cane would come swishing down on his posterior ...

It was assumed, especially in British public schools, that the use of the cane would make men out of the boys. Punish-and-discipline was the accepted norm among headmasters, teachers and school ...

The parents of a 16-year-old school prefect who died following a car crash have spoken of his passion for football and his studies. Inverness High School pupil Drew Watson was taken to Raigmore ...