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Bloomberg
13-05-2025
- Bloomberg
Nervous About Trump, NYC's Rich Parents Are Being Lured by Elite UK Schools
On a cool evening in early May, emissaries for 11 of Europe's finest prep schools mingled with the Upper East Side set at the Pratt Mansions, a classic, Beaux-Arts edifice erected across the street from Central Park. Officials from Milton Abbey School were there and Benenden School and Westminster School. For two hours, they pitched New York's well-heeled parents on the benefits of sending their teens across the Atlantic to study: morning rows on the Thames, breakfast in a Hogwarts-like dining hall, ski trips in the Alps — all for just a bit more than the roughly $70,000 they'd pay for private schooling in Manhattan.
Bloomberg
13-05-2025
- Bloomberg
Nervous About Trump, NYC's Rich Parents Are Being Lured by Posh UK Schools
On a cool evening in early May, emissaries for 11 of Europe's finest prep schools mingled with the Upper East side set at the Pratt Mansions, a classic, Beaux-Arts edifice erected across the street from Central Park. Officials from Milton Abbey School were there and Benenden School and Westminster School. For two hours, they pitched New York's well-heeled parents on the benefits of sending their teens across the Atlantic to study: morning rows on the Thames, breakfast in a Hogwarts-like dining hall, ski trips in the Alps — all for just a bit more than the roughly $70,000 they'd pay for private schooling in Manhattan.
Times
04-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Times
Gillian duCharme obituary: Private head who switched to state school
Gillian duCharme had been head of Benenden School for 12 years when she was approached by a producer on Back To The Floor, a BBC series that ran from 1997 to 2002 in which people at the top of their profession volunteered to 'go back to basics'. The episode 'A Class Apart' aimed to show the sharp divide of the British education system by sending duCharme, a slender, swan-necked woman in her fifties who had spent most of her life in private schools, to a tough inner-city comprehensive. She agreed to do it, explaining: 'I'm deeply curious. I'd like to see how it all works, because I don't know.' Set in 250 acres of rolling Kent countryside, Benenden was one of Britain's most expensive private
