세계 최고 귀족학교

 

 

세계에서 최고의 귀족학교는 스위스에 있는 '르 로제(Institut Le Rosey)'라는 학교입니다.

 

알프스 산자락에 있는 '르 로제'는 세계 최고 수준의 통합 교육 시스템으로 세계 각국의 왕자와 공주들을 유혹하고 있습니다.

 

스위스의 공식 언어는 독일어와 프랑스어, 이탈리아어, 로망슈어 4가지인데 이 학교에서는 이 모든 언어를 배울 수 있고 세계 명문대 진학 프로그램을 갖추고 있어 인기가 높습니다.

 

1880년에 설립된 '르 로제'는 세계 최고의 명문 학교답게 1년 학비만 무려 약14만 달러(한화 약 1억5000만원)나 됩니다.

 

이 학교에서는 승마장과 제네바 강에서 운행하는 초호화 요트, 1,000석 규모의 콘서트 홀, 사우나, 비치 발리볼 코트 등 다양한 고급 편의시설이 있고 캠퍼스 전경은 ‘왕궁’이나 다름 없습니다.

 

또한 그슈타드(Gstaad)의 스키장과 18홀의 골프장을 학생들이자유로이 이용할 수 있어 학생들에게 인기가 높습니다.

 

특히 영어와 프랑스어를 원어민 수준으로 가르치고 있어 르 로제 학생들은 졸업 후 영미권의 명문대학교로 진학할 수 있습니다.

 

 

 

Switzerland is home to 10 of the world’s most expensive private schools - all set in and around the Swiss Alps. About 100,000 students attend private school in Switzerland, according to the Swiss Federation of Private Schools and the top three boarding schools cost over $100,000 a year.

 

Le Rosey, also referred to the "School of Kings," is one of the most prestigious private schools in the world. Founded in 1880, its Switzerland’s oldest and largest boarding school with 28 hectares of land. Generally, only one in three candidates are accepted to the school that operates on a national quota system, where no more than 10 percent of students can be from one country or group of countries with the same dominant language.

 

Facilities at the school include 10 tennis courts, an open-air theatre, circus tent, shooting and archery ranges to name a few.

 

Some of Le Rosey’s famous students include the Aga Khan, King Albert II of Belgium, Prince Rainier of Monaco, as well as other European, and Middle Eastern royal family members. Children of movie stars, rock stars, and American business tycoons have also been Le Rosey alumni.

 

 

 

It is known as the school of kings, counting among its alumni the Shah of Iran, Prince Rainier of Monaco and King Farouk of Egypt. Its catchment area was once the glittering palaces that housed the grandest families on the Continent: the Metternichs, the Borgheses and the Hohenlohes.

 

But Institut Le Rosey is now spreading its net to humble old Britain. For the first time in its 135-year history, the prestigious Swiss boarding school has been recruiting gilt-edged pupils, aged seven to 18, in London.

 

Co-educational since 1967, it is keen to claim a slice of a market hitherto dominated by British boarding schools such as Eton and Harrow.

 

But at £80,000 a year - more than twice their fees - the most expensive school in the world will hardly be cherry-picking the brightest and best middle-class British pupils. Their parents find British school fees steep enough already.

 

London, however, has become the city of choice for the world’s richest parents so is also home to the world’s richest kids. And it is they who formed the target audience for Le Rosey’s recruitment drive last week, held at the city’s Swiss Embassy.

 

 

There has long been a tiny British contingent at the school, making up five per cent of its 400 pupils. Its intake hails from 63 countries, with no more than 10% of its students coming from any one country, to prevent a single nationality dominating.

 

Sir Roger Moore and Elizabeth Taylor sent their children there. John Lennon’s son Sean studied there too, as did the Duke of Kent and Winston Spencer Churchill, grandson of the wartime Prime Minister.

 

A teacher teaches students student during a science class at the international institute of Le Rosey

 

But the days when it served an inter-continental upper-class elite are long gone.

 

“Le Rosey was different in the 1950s when I first came here,” says Taki Theodoracopulos, the Spectator columnist who lives in Gstaad, home to one of Le Rosey’s two campuses. “Then all the kids were upper-class - Rainier and the Shah were looked down upon. It was mostly American. Then the Italians and the French came. And then, in the 1970s, the Arabs arrived.”

 

As the international mega-rich pour in, the school is losing its Euro-Anglo-American founding ethos.

 

“That’s why they’re recruiting the British,” says Taki, whose son attended the school. “They want to get some Europeans, and the odd token Briton and American, but they can’t admit it.”

 

Some of that British sheen is supplied by Michael Gray, Le Rosey’s British headmaster, educated at a Liverpool grammar school.

 

Otherwise, the school is not only in another country, it might as well be on another planet as far as most people are concerned.

 

 

The winter term is spent in Gstaad, with lessons finishing by lunchtime so the children can hit the slopes for the afternoon. In spring, they head to the school’s Château du Rosey campus nestled on the site of a Gothic, 14th-century château in the village of Rolle on the shores of Lake Geneva.

 

The privately-owned institution is astonishingly well-equipped, with a shooting range, 1,000-seat concert hall and an equestrian centre boasting 30 horses. Few other schools have their own 38-foot yacht on Lake Geneva, let alone a spa for stressed-out pupils to unwind in at the end of the long school day. Classes are in French and English, in a system called “à la carte bilingualism”. The teacher-pupil ratio is an enviable 1:5.

 

But for those who can afford the fees, perhaps none of this seems out of the ordinary.

 

“Seeing a helicopter land on the football pitches with a Russian pupil stepping out with his parents, I was somewhat shocked at the in-your-face parades of wealth,” says Annabel, 25, who worked as a housemaster’s au pair at Le Rosey in 2008. “It is very different to a British boarding school - it is run like a business. one pupil had 'I AM RICH’ planted across his jumper. I felt the boys definitely wanted to prove their wealth in a more crass way than the girl pupils.”

 

Yet the school is at pains to deny that money is a divisive issue among its students.

 

“No one goes around, saying 'I’m richer than you’,” Gray told the Times, “It’s completely unsnobbish. If people put on airs and graces they wouldn’t survive.”

 

Students discussing ideas during science class at the international institute of Le Rosey

 

Only those who can expect to get into university are offered a place (Alamy)

 

The school is also keen to stress it’s not just for those who have money but no brains. All the pupils sit official external examinations - the International Baccalaureate (IB) or the French baccalauréat. only those who can expect to get into university are offered a place . And only one in three applicants is accepted.

 

“It’s certainly not academic,” says Taki, “But the school does do its best to improve the kids. My son was happy there - and they are polite. My wife was going up in the ski lift the other day with three Le Rosey kids. one was Russian, one American, one Arab. They couldn’t have been nicer or more polite.”

 

Unsurprisingly, this rarefied elite ends up forming close bonds.

 

“I saw a lot of relationships,” says Annabel, who now works in advertising in Australia. “Many of the boarding students were renting out pretty expensive hotel rooms in Gstaad for the weekend, where they could get up to mischief without adult or teacher supervision.”

 

Go to Le Rosey - or, even better, marry another Ancien Roséen, as Old Roseans are called - and you’re set up for life. There’s an Anciens Roséens alumni programme and a strictly private directory that lets you network with other super-rich old boys and girls.

 

With that exclusive alumni network, along with the school’s fabulous settings and eye-watering fees, it’s hard not to agree with F Scott Fitzgerald: the very rich “are different from you and me”. And they start being very different at a very young age.

 

 

 

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