Institut Le Rosey

Institut Le Rosey   (School)
Formation	1880
Headquarters	Rolle, Switzerland
Very posh Swiss boarding school

Institut Le Rosey, commonly referred to as Le Rosey, is a boarding school in Rolle, Switzerland. It was founded by Paul-Émile Carnal in 1880 on the site of the 14th-century Château du Rosey in the town of Rolle in the canton of Vaud. It is among the oldest boarding schools in Switzerland and one of the most expensive schools in the world.

The school also owns a campus in the ski resort village of Gstaad in the canton of Bern, to where the student body, faculty, and staff move during the months of January through March. In 2015, Christophe Gudin, the son of the fourth director of Le Rosey Philippe Gudin, became the fifth one. Kim Kovacevic is the headmaster.

Overview

Le Rosey's philosophy is inspired by what Harvard educationalist Howard Gardner has called "multiple intelligences": "its aim is to develop all Roseans’ talents through academic, sporting and artistic programmes." The school offers a demanding bilingual and bicultural education with the language of instruction being French or English depending on the student's academic program; however, students may take many language classes while at Le Rosey. Students may sit either the International Baccalaureate, the most widely recognized pre-university educational program, or the Francophone-oriented French Baccalaureate.

To sustain an international atmosphere at Le Rosey, there exists a quota where no more than 10% of the students may come from a single country. Prior to the introduction of the 10% quota, wherein no more than 10% of the student body may come from one country, different nationalities made up the majority of students at Le Rosey. In the 1950s and 1960s, the majority of students were Americans, Italians, and Greeks, in the 1970s came the Arabs and Iranians, in the 1980s came the Japanese and Koreans, and in the 1990s came the Russians. During the 1990s, the children of Russian oligarchs made up a third of the student body.

The student body, ages 7 through 18, is composed of pupils from approximately 58 different countries, with 60% of the students being European. The school's current enrollment, over 400 pupils, is equally divided between male and female. The majority of students are between the ages of 14 and 18. The student-teacher ratio is 5:1 with the average class size being fewer than 20 students, and the average teacher's length of stay at Le Rosey is over ten years. Students at Le Rosey are nicknamed "Roséens" (in French) or "Roseans" (in English), and former students are labeled "Les Anciens Roséens". The school's campus has 28 hectares (69 acres) of landscaped grounds. The school's sailing center, the "Fleur d'Eau", is situated along 100 meters of shoreline on Lake Geneva. Le Rosey is reportedly the only boarding school in the world to change campuses seasonally. In spring and autumn, classes are held at the Château du Rosey campus in the village of Rolle in the canton of Vaud, located between Geneva and Lausanne in southwestern Switzerland. For the winter months of January through March, the entire student body moves to a group of chalets in the ski resort town of Gstaad in the canton of Berne.

Associations

L'Association Internationale des Anciens Roséens (AIAR), the International Association of Former Roseans, is Le Rosey's alumni association, the members of which have been major contributors to 20th-century world history. The AIAR, a prestigious network of former students, has alumni representatives in most countries and in many major cities across the world. Le Rosey's first alumni association, the "Old Rosey Association", was created on 21 July 1922 by a small group of alumni in the presence of the son of the school's founder, Henri Carnal. In 1926, the "Belgian Old Rosey Association" was founded; however, like the Old Rosey Association, it was declining due to slow international communication between alumni. The current alumni association, the AIAR, was established in 1964. The school's list of alumni is not published and access to AIAR events and meetings is exclusive to former students.

Institut Le Rosey is fully accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, the International Baccalaureate, the Ministry of National Education of France and the Council of International Schools. Le Rosey is also a member of the European Council of International Schools.

 

Alumni on Wikispooks

Person	Born	Died	Nationality	Summary	Description
Nicolas Berggruen	10 August 1961		Germany US	Billionaire Businessperson	Sponsor of influential think-tanks
Arpad Busson	27 January 1963		France	Financier Playboy	Former hedge fund manager and playboy who runs the charity Absolute Return for Kids. Big donor to the Clinton Foundation.
Dodi Fayed	15 April 1955	31 August 1997	Egypt Finland UK	Producer
Richard Helms	30 March 1913	23 October 2002	US	Spook Perjury Deep state actor
Alistair Horne	9 November 1925	25 May 2017	UK	Journalist	UK historian with deep intelligence ties
H. John Heinz III	23 October 1938	4 April 1991	US	Politician Businessperson	A US politician and Bilderberger who died in a small plane crash the day before a friend of his, John Tower also died in a plane crash.
Aga Khan IV	13 December 1936		France Portugal Switzerland UK	Clergy Billionaire Royalty Businessperson	Ultra-rich leader of religious sect with own secluded pleasure island.
Alexander Karageorgevitch	17 July 1945		Serbia UK		Pretender to Serbian Crown with close ties to British royal family and military
Nicholas Negroponte	1 December 1943		US	Academic	Founder of Wired, brother of John Negroponte
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi	6 October 1919	27 July 1980		Royalty Puppet ruler
Edwin Plowden	6 January 1907	15 February 2001	UK	Civil servant Businessperson	UK senior civil servant involved in implementing the Marshall Plan. Friend of Jean Monnet, who worked to bring Britain into an European community. Attended Bilderberg/1961.
Juan Carlos I of Spain	5 January 1938		Spain	King
Tad Szulc	25 July 1926	21 May 2001		Journalist

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