感谢高飞的澳币， 现在送小孩去英国读最后的皇家私校， 比悉尼私校便宜很多
Currency lads and lasses kick open doors of privilege By Jenny Dillon
FORGET Sydney's breeding grounds for the rich and privileged - if you want to give your child a shot at being a prince, prime minister or poet it's now cheaper to send them to Eton.
Thanks to a robust Aussie dollar, parents can now bypass Sydney schools like Knox Grammar and The King's School and send their young blue bloods into the land of future lords and ladies at top British schools.
The tuition and boarding fees of elite private schools such as Cranbrook, Newington, The King's School and The Scots College are now more expensive than their once more posh English counterparts - yet lacking the illustrious alumni.
Cranbrook can boast gambling magnate James Packer as an old boy, but Eton has the pride of the parade in princes William and Harry.
However, what local schools lack in old boy status, they make up for with value for money, according to executive director of the Association of Independent Schools, Geoff Newcombe. "The quality of boarding here is very different from what it was a few years ago," Dr Newcombe said. "Many kids have to board because they live in distant places.
.."There has been an incredible effort to make their accommodation more like home. It's on a very different level from the English schools. Eton is pretty basic.
"We pay our staff properly."
Annual fees for board and tuition at Cranbrook for a Year 12 student top $51,621, while Eton charges $46,137.
At The Scots College, board and tuition is more than $49,000 for access to its honour board, which features Hollywood film director Peter Weir and artist Brett Whitely.
But Winchester, the most expensive boarding school in England, costs just $46,686 and boasts cricketer anti-hero Douglas Jardine and Buffy The Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon among its famous alumni.
At Trinity Grammar the annual fees are $48,650 for an association with rock singer Richard Clapton, at Newington (nursery of chef Neil Perry and Wallaby captains Nick Farr-Jones and Phil Kearns) they are $45,432 and at The King's School (which produced Hollywood film director Bruce Beresford and former deputy prime minister John Anderson) they are $44,082.
Those fees rival the costs of top boarding schools in the US.
St Paul's in New Hampshire, which boasts among its old boys media baron William Randolph Hearst and US presidential contender Senator John Kerry, charges $45,000. Groton School in Massachusetts asks $44,266 and prides itself for the fact that most of the Roosevelts went there.
And Middlesex School in Massachusetts charges $43,809 and can gush about actors Steve Carell and William Hurt hurtling through its hallowed halls.
One of the cheapest of the best in the US is Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire. For just $38,558, students can walk in the famous footsteps of author Gore Vidal, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown.
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很好很给力.
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英国的Eaton不是有钱就能进去的吧， waiting list估计得排死
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伊顿哈罗等英美名校可以考虑广开连锁分校。
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记得薄熙来的儿子薄瓜瓜上的是英国的哈罗公学，据说是第一个上那的华人。
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also need to take entrance test
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不收女生的。有没有好的混校？
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有test就好办。华人不怕这个
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谢谢分享!
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Top English boarding schools:
Winchester College £31,350 $46,686.42
Alumni: Writer Anthony Trollope, Oscar Wilde's lover Lord Alfred Douglas, Fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley, Mount Everest climber George Mallory, cricketer Douglas Jardine, comedian Tim Brooke-Taylor, Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon,
Eton College £30,981 $46,136.91
Alumni: Princes William and Harry, 19 prime ministers including William Gladstone, Sir Robert Walpole the first Duke of Wellington and David Cameron, actors Dominic West from The Wire and Hugh Laurie from House, spy Guy Burgess, writer George Orwell, economist John Maynard Keyes
Westminster School £30,438 $45,328.27
Alumni: 16th century poet and dramatist Ben Johnson, St Paul's Cathedral architect Sir Christopher Wren, Winnie-the-Pooh creator A.A. Milne, actors Sir John Gielgud and Sir Peter Ustinov, musical theatre legend Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber, Liberal Democrat leader and deputy Prime Minister Nicholas Clegg
Harrow School £29,670 $44,184.56
Alumni: Seven British Prime Ministers including Sir Winston Churchill and Robert Peel, poet Lord Byron, Britain's current richest person The Duke of Westminster, singer James Blunt, first Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru
Charterhouse School £29,430 $43,827.16
Alumni: Co-founder of Rhode Island Roger Williams, founder of Methodism John Wesley, Boy Scouts founder Robert Baden-Powell, writer William Makepeace Thackeray, novelist Robert Graves, TV and radio presenter Jonathon Dimbleby, rock band Genesis founder Peter Gabriel,
Rugby School £28,050 $41,772.06
Alumni: Founder of the sport of rugby William Webb Ellis, inventor of the game of Australian Rules Tom Wills, war-time poet Rupert Brooke, British prime minister Neville Chamberlain, Alice in Wonderland creator Lewis Carroll, Muslim fatwa target and Booker Prize winner writer Salman Rushdie,
St Paul's School, London £27,891 $41,535.28
Alumni: Poet John Milton, diarist Samuel Pepys, astrologist Edmund Halley, World War II general Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery, actor Roy Kinnear
Shrewsbury School £26,640 $39,672.29
Alumni: Originator of the theory of natural evolution Charles Darwin, founders of Private Eye Christopher Booker and Richard Ingrams, actor and TV presenter Michael Palin, novelist Nevil Shute
Top NSW boarding schools (for years 7 to 12)
The Scots College $42,681-$49,114
Alumni: Anglican Archbishop of Sydney Dr Peter Jenson, former NSW Governor Admiral Sir David Martin, prominent Sydney neurosurgeon Dr Charlie Teo, Hollywood film director Peter Weir, artist Brett Whitely
Cranbrook $49,881-$51,621
Alumni: Media mogul Kerry Packer and his son James, Channel Nine CEO David Gyngell, One-Tel founder Jodee Rich, actor Garry McDonald, artist Martin Sharp, Olympic Gold Medallist Murray Rose, failed entrepreneur and former prisoner Rodney Adler
Trinity Grammar $45,960-$48,650
Alumni: Motoring journalist Peter Wherrett and his theatre director brother Richard Wherrett
Newington College $43,335-$45,432
Alumni: Nationals leader and deputy opposition leader in the NSW Legislative Council Duncan Gay, Seven Network boss David Leckie, renowned chef Neil Perry, former Rugby World Cup winning Wallaby captains Nick Farr-Jones and Phil Kearns, current Wallaby Lachlan Turner, shooter in the 1991 Strathfield Massacre that killed 7 Wade Frankum
Shore (Sydney Church of England Grammar School) $41,640-$43,980
Alumni: Bookie Robert William Waterhouse, criminal private eye and corporate fixer Tim Bristow, Hollywood star and famous womaniser Errol Flynn, musician Tim Freedman, media proprietor Sir Frank Packer, former prime minister Sir John Gorton, Wallaby Phil Waugh
The Kings School $40,980-$44,082
Alumni: Former deputy prime minister John Anderson, comedian Doug Antony, comedian, Wallaby Stirling Mortlock, Hollywood film director Bruce Beresford, playwright and husband of Cate Blanchett Andrew Upton
St Joseph's College $32,670
Alumni: property tycoons Roy and Ron Medich, Wiggle Anthony Field, former Governor General Sir William Deane, more Wallabies than any other school including current star Kurtley Beale
St Ignatius' College Riverview $32,500-$34,860
Alumni: Federal Opposition leader Tony Abbott, Macquarie Bank boss Nicholas Moore, actor/musician Ignatius Jones, TV personality Andrew O'Keefe, former NSW premier Nick Greiner, AFL player Leo Barry, a host of Wallabies,
The Armidale School $27,430-$34,370
Alumni: Environmentalist and sailor Ian Keirnan, playwright Alex Buzo, Wallaby Joe Roff
Top US Boarding Schools
St Paul's, New Hampshire $US49,690 $45,000.02
Alumni: Newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, US presidential contender Senator John Kerry, actor Judd Nelson
Groton School, Massachusetts $US48,895 $44,266.59
Alumni: Most of the Roosevelts, Law & Order's Sam Waterston
Middlesex School, Massachusetts $US48,390 $43,809.39
Alumni: Actors Steve Carell and William Hurt
Georgetown Prep, Maryland $US48,160 $43,597.62
Alumni: Drew Barrymore's grandfather John who was expelled, a host of the Kennedy clan children
The Lawrenceville School, New Jersey $US46,475 $42,065.09
Alumni: Publisher Malcolm Forbes, Nobel Laureate for Economics George Akerlof, musician Huey Lewis
Milton Academy, Massachusetts $US45,720 $41,380.84
Alumni: Poet T.S. Eliot, slain presidential contender Robert F. Kennedy, his brother Ted Kennedy
Deerfield Academy, Massachusetts $US45,450 $41,136.34
Alumni: King Abdullah II of Jordan, writer John McPhee, actor Matthew Fox, several Rockefellers
Choate Rosemary Hall, Connecticut $US45,070 $40,792.41
Alumni: Slain US President John Kennedy, actors Glenn Close, Michael Douglas, Jamie Lee Curtis and Paul Giamati
The Hotchkiss School, New York $US44,650 $40,409.12
Alumni: Time founders Henry Luce and Briton Hadden, automotive giant Henry Ford, lolly makers Forrest and John Mars, Boston Red Sox owner Tom Werner, founder of Morgan Stanley merchant bank, Harold Stanley
Phillips Exeter Academy, New Hampshire $US42,605 $38,558.36
Alumni: Author Gore Vidal, actor George Plimpton, who was expelled, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown
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