Aiglon College


Aiglon College is a private co-educational boarding school in Switzerland, broadly modelled on British boarding school lines. It is an independent, non-profit school located in the Swiss Alps, 1,250 metres above Lausanne, in the alpine village of Chesières, near the ski resort of Villars, in the canton of Vaud.
Aiglon College Junior School caters for boys and girls in years 5 to 8. The Senior School caters for students in years 9 to 13. Students are prepared for GCSE and IGCSE examinations at the end of year 11 and for the International Baccalaureate in the final two years. Throughout the school, the curriculum is taught in English, with the exception of languages and literature.
All students are required to take part in expeditions every term. These include hiking, camping, mountain biking, kayaking, rock-climbing, ski mountaineering, and other outdoor challenges.

Accreditation

The college's secondary education is not approved as a Mittelschule/Collège/Liceo by the Swiss Federal State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation.

History

The school was founded in 1949 by John C. Corlette, who was a teacher at Gordonstoun, where he was influenced by that school's founder, Kurt Hahn. Corlette established principles and practices that were aligned with Hahn's emphasis on the place of adventure and service in education. Aiglon College, alongside Gordonstoun, Schule Schloss Salem, Abbotsholme School, Box Hill School and Anavryta Experimental Lyceum, was a founding member of the Round Square, established to promote Hahnian values and links between schools that embraced Hahn's educational principles.
The school began with six students and, save for a few exceptions, remained a boys' school until 1968, when it became fully co-educational.

Notable alumni