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Malay Mail
3 days ago
- General
- Malay Mail
Institut auf dem Rosenberg Opens 2026/27 Admissions, Emphasizing Diversity and Individuality Over Sole Academic Merit
ST. GALLEN, SWITZERLAND - Newsaktuell – 3 June 2025 - Institut auf dem Rosenberg , recently ranked as the "Best Boarding School in the World" by Premium Europe, announces the opening of its admissions cycle for the 2026/27 academic year. With all grades currently operating on a waitlist basis, the school continues to attract exceptional applicants, with only a select few gaining direct admission"Academic excellence is fundamental, but it's the unique personalities, talents, and perspectives that truly enrich our community," said Anita Gademann, Board Member and Head of Innovation. "We seek students who not only excel in academics but also bring distinctive qualities that contribute to a vibrant and forward-thinking environment."Rosenberg's commitment to individualized education is evident in its unparalleled Talent & Enrichment Programme. Offering over 100 courses – from robotics and artificial intelligence to fashion design and international law – the programme provides students with real-world experiences beyond traditional school's state-of-the-art facilities, including the Creative Lab and Future Park, support this innovative curriculum, fostering an environment where creativity and critical thinking a student body representing over 60 nationalities and an average class size of eight, Rosenberg ensures personalized attention and a multicultural learning experience. The school's Individual Development Plan (IDP®) further tailors education to each student's strengths and valuing character and diversity alongside academic prowess, Institut auf dem Rosenberg continues to set the standard for education, cultivating a community where future leaders #InstitutaufdemRosenberg The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. About Institut auf dem Rosenberg Founded in 1889, Institut auf dem Rosenberg is a prestigious Swiss boarding school located in St. Gallen. Known for its individualized education, innovative Talent & Enrichment Programme, and cutting-edge facilities, Rosenberg prepares students aged 6 to 19 for success in a rapidly evolving global landscape. For more information, please visit
BBC News
3 days ago
- Business
- BBC News
Compulsory education 'costing Isles of Scilly families thousands'
"It's pretty inconvenient," says 18-year-old Jacob Mallon of the 19-hour journey between his home in the Isles of Scilly and the college he has been attending for the past two years. It is a trek he made up to 12 times a year, involving a plane, a bus, a hotel, a train and a taxi and it is not only inconvenient - it is also islands are one of only two local authority areas in England with no sixth-form provision and as a result, his family say they are now in £20,000 of debt after sending their son to a state-run boarding college in Winchester. The Isles of Scilly Council says other options are available, including cheaper host families but campaigners are concerned about the safety of children living in unregulated accommodation. In 2015 it became a legal requirement for young people in England to stay in education, training or employment until recent years, there have been between 15 to 32 Scilly children in each post-16 year group, with two year groups completing their sixth form education at any one time. Children in the City of London - the only other local authority with no post-16 provision - can get a bus or tube to a nearby provider but island children have no choice but to travel to the they live during this time is causing tensions between the council and parents - and it can also come as a culture shock to the young islanders."I have to get the boat or the plane, if I get the boat it gets in quite late so I have to stay the night in Penzance, then it's a six or seven hour train to Winchester," says Jacob, who has just finished his college studies. Before starting college, the longest time he had spent off Scilly was about two weeks: "I'm used to walking down the road and knowing everyone but on the mainland, I don't know anyone and it's a bit weird."Accommodation options include staying with host families, costing about £9,000 a year; boarding, with the nearest state boarding costing £16,500 per year - or imposing on mainland family and does not include travel or other incidentals and families say the sums have been increasing "exponentially" as the cost of living goes can get a grant - increasing this year to £9,635 - to help with travel and accommodation mother Samantha Mallon says: "Any raise in the money is welcome, but it's still so far short of what we need and it's not addressing the safeguarding issues." The grant is made up of £8,000 from the government, administered by the council, and a top-up from the council but parents say it does not cover any of the told the BBC they had spent their life savings on boarding fees, while others say they have taken two jobs to pay the Mallon says she worries about safety."You don't know who's coming in and out of the house," she says. "Some of the families are great and that's brilliant but most people will say they've been lucky and it shouldn't come down to luck with children."Jacob says he thinks it is "unfair" Scilly young people "have to come away and there isn't really any other opportunities for us"."We just don't get enough funding for what we need," he says."I've had conversations with mates who've had bad times and they've had to change host families because they've been kicked out."Most [young] people don't have to figure out where they're gonna live but obviously quite a lot of people from Scilly do." Child 'became very ill' The council says it supports host families by funding Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) certificates but while several hosts have taken up the offer, it remains optional. In a March meeting, councillors heard how an anonymous child "became very ill with type 1 diabetes" while living in host family accommodation, but "nobody noticed [them] lose 10kg over the course of a six-week half term when [they were] away from home".The council says "there are no records" of any referrals to children's services about children living with host adds since Ofsted found its safeguarding practices to be inadequate, it has "improved significantly" and had changes of BBC can reveal an anonymous teenager brought a judicial review against the council but it has since been withdrawn after an agreement between the parties. In March, High Court judges approved the agreement, which included the council agreeing safeguarding concerns were a relevant consideration when determining the level of also agreed to pay the claimant's legal council says it offered a resolution at an earlier stage and it "regrets that such action was taken".For the campaigners the result is "disappointing" and they are looking at their next legal options. Mother-of-two Jenny Bhadha is preparing to send her 15-year-old to the mainland in September."I do not feel happy or safe moving him into a family home that we've never met and don't know from Adam," she says. Mrs Bhadha says she considered breaking up her family to move with her son to Devon – the fees for boarding accommodation simply out of the son will be staying with a family friend in Plymouth while attending college there. In January, former councillor Anita Bedford said she was resigning from the Isles of Scilly Council over the matter. "I felt that the number one goal was to protect the organisation [council] at any cost," she says."I actually listened to councillors and officers saying, 'this is just a few precious mums who want to send their children to private boarding at the cost of £30,000 a year paid for by the taxpayer' - that was being spun, not just in meetings, but it was being spun within the community."She adds her own time in host family accommodation "was not a good experience" and as a consequence, she funded her two children to go to state boarding. "We wanted that environment, not just for the education, but that 24-hour wraparound," she says. The council says it takes safeguarding of children and spending public money "very seriously", adding Ms Bedford's reasons for resigning were personal to her. When the BBC went to St Mary's, very few parents were willing to publicly comment on the matter, with some saying they fear losing their jobs with the council - one of the island's main employers. The council says staff with children can discuss their concerns with their management "without any fear of disciplinary action".The BBC understands September 2025 will be the second time the council has contributed to the grants away from the government funds, the first was the previous year. In 2022 the council asked the government for £15,715 per pupil per year, which campaigners say they feel would be fair. This was declined with the new government saying it would look again in its next spending review. Statistics show Scilly has one of the highest proportions of 16 and 17 year olds not in education, employment or training."If [the council] can't afford to fund it... then they should be going back to the government which has made education up until 18 compulsory," Mrs Mallon adds."Parents shouldn't be subsidising the council or the government for what is their statutory duty."The council says it will continue to make representations to central government to increase the level of funding and will write to the nearest state schools who offer boarding to ask for a discount for Isles of Scilly children in light of their "unique circumstances".It gave its full support to host families saying they provide a "warm, welcoming and supportive home environment".The Department for Education says it has increased funding to £8,000 for the coming year and adds: "This government is mission-driven to break down barriers to opportunity through our Plan for Change. "We are committed to ensuring our post-16 education system gives young people the best life chances, whatever their background or postcode."Additional reporting by Mark Edwards and David Dixon
Times
22-05-2025
- Lifestyle
- Times
We've only ever had sex with each other — have we missed out?
Q. We've been together since we were teenagers and I feel like we've been going through the motions in the bedroom for some time, but now our son's gone to boarding school, it's really exposed the lack of excitement in our sex life. We're only in our late thirties and I worry we've missed out by never sleeping with anyone but each other. Friends have suggested we 'open up' our marriage but we definitely don't want to do that. What else can we try? A. I'm not sure what you mean by 'some time' but most couples who have been together twentysomething years and raised a family experience some decline in sexual frequency and sexual excitement. I don't really know why anyone expects anything else.
Washington Post
20-05-2025
- Politics
- Washington Post
NY governor to visit Seneca Nation to apologize for state's role in boarding school
NEW YORK — New York's governor plans to visit the Seneca Nation on Tuesday to formally apologize for the state's role in running an upstate boarding school that separated Native American students from their families with the goal of assimilating them into American society. Gov. Kathy Hochul is also expected to meet with survivors of the Thomas Indian School, which operated from 1875 to 1957 in western New York near Lake Erie.
ABC News
16-05-2025
- ABC News
Church report revealed concerns about paedophile links at Queensland school
A report by Catholic church authorities raised concerns about the links between known paedophiles and their associates accused of historical child sex abuse at a rural Queensland boarding school. Warning: This story contains distressing content about The report, which was handed to Queensland police in 2022, detailed the connections between seven men who worked at St Teresa's College in Abergowrie, near Ingham, between 1989 and 2012. Three of them have since been convicted of child sex offences, including former school safety officer and boarding master David Justin Crisp, who was jailed this week after more than three decades on the run from police. Alastair McDougall, a former detective who issued the warrant for Crisp's arrest in 1993, said he had no inkling then that the case would lead to the exposure of a disturbing web of offenders at an "out of the way" school catering to vulnerable teenagers. "When you look at who was there at the time and what positions they held, and the allegations proven and unproven against them, those boys just didn't stand a chance," Mr McDougall said. Jacqui Francis, the current chief executive of Townsville Catholic Education which runs St Teresa's College, said its handling of allegations against Crisp between 1989 and 1993 was 'totally inadequate". "We acknowledge historical abuse and the pain and suffering that past students have been subjected to," she said. "No student or family should be subjected to this pain." The "Connections at St Teresa's College" report, seen by the ABC, shows the seven men shared personal and professional histories, helped each other get jobs, and some were accused of targeting the same victims. It reveals that five of the men have been accused of sexually abusing up to 14 boys at the school between 1989 and 1998, while the other two were accused or convicted of abusing children elsewhere. Some complaints emerged in recent years and were settled with church payouts of up to $70,000, according to church documents. But only one complaint from the school has resulted in a criminal conviction. Crisp, 57, was sentenced in the Townsville District Court on Wednesday to serve eight months in prison for indecent treatment of a boy in his care. Mr McDougall, who went on to work for some of Australia's top crime-fighting agencies, said it was his only "unresolved" case and he never expected Crisp to be caught. Crisp was 25 years old and facing charges of abusing three boys when he fled to the UK via Vanuatu and New Caledonia. He finally returned to Australia last year to care for his sick mother in Toowoomba, where police swooped in to arrest him after a tip from Crime Stoppers. "And I'm just really hopeful that that sense of closure is one that's also felt by the remaining complainant." Two alleged victims did not live to see Crisp face court and those charges were withdrawn. But their original statements were admitted as "tendency" evidence in the case and Crisp pleaded guilty, which spared surviving victim the distress of giving testimony in court. The victim was exposed to abuse after Crisp was allowed to return to the school despite allegations by the other two boys prompting him to resign in 1990. An internal investigation at the time found one boy had "mistaken a medical examination" by Crisp for sexual abuse, which a later church report found 'inherently' unlikely. The school priest Brooks Patterson told church officials he believed the other boy's account was truthful — but privately he told Crisp that "there are those of us who believe in you and will support you to the hilt". The decision by principal James Sampson Doran to rehire Crisp in 1992 was "extraordinary and indefensible", according to a 2016 internal report. When then Detective Senior Constable McDougall asked for files about earlier complaints against Crisp, he was told that "details of the previous incident would not assist" and a church investigation had resolved the matter. Mr McDougall said this was "completely incorrect". He said that given Crisp was welcomed back to the school by a "principal who was [later] a convicted paedophile… you have to say it was a cover up". The principal, Doran, died in 2018 while serving a 13-year sentence for child sex abuse. The 2022 church report highlighted close ties between Doran and Crisp, who was suspected of sexually abusing up to seven boys and harassing two others at St Teresa's. Three of them alleged they also were sexually abused by Doran. In one complaint referred to police in 2016, a former student alleged that Crisp "would masturbate over him and other students", while Doran allegedly abused him in so-called counselling sessions after plying him with alcohol "laced with drugs". The report says the two predators were "strongly suspected as having a sexual relationship whilst they both worked at [the school]". Crisp was a former student of Doran's at St John's College in Lismore, where Doran preyed on boys in the 1970s and 1980s. Crisp then worked at the school as a boarding supervisor alongside Doran, who gave him a glowing work reference. After Doran became principal of St Teresa's in 1989, he recruited both Crisp and his father as boarding masters. Church documents show Townsville Catholic Education officials knew Doran was accused of sexual misconduct in Lismore in 1983 but "noted [this] as having been dismissed". Doran was eventually jailed for his earlier offences — but he was never charged over his time at St Teresa's. A fourth former student accused Doran of sexual abuse in 2021. The church report a year later noted Doran had hired three other alleged paedophiles who had close associations with convicted child sex offenders who provided work references. The church referred one of these men to NSW police after an informant accused him of being a "notorious paedophile who fled from Sydney to North Queensland to avoid persecution". It said NSW police knew of no allegations against the man but urged the church to notify Queensland police given his "connection to Doran" through a Sydney boarding school in the 1970s. The report also named Raymond Frederick Ayles, an Anglican priest who was assigned to support non-Catholic students at St Teresa's in 1989. There were no complaints at the school about Ayles but he was later jailed for molesting boys in Adelaide in the 1970s. The church in August 2022 reported its findings on the "possible connection of multiple alleged/ potential offenders" to child protection police in Townsville, who "advised that they have generated an intelligence submission" to share with police interstate. Ms Francis said the Catholic church in Townsville was "committed to assisting investigations for victims to receive justice, healing and compensation". "We have welcomed and embedded legislative changes and prioritised student protection within our current system's policies and procedures," she said. "The safety of students is our number one priority and we have had a dedicated student protection team at Townsville Catholic Education since 2014." Mr McDougall said it was "pretty disappointing" the same information was not shared with police years earlier. He said it revealed a network of convicted and alleged offenders who had "assisted each other to find employment with each other, which has allowed them to cover up effectively any complaints that come forward". Mr McDougall said he thought it would "never have seen the light of day" without that first complaint to police by the teenager from St Teresa's.
