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Downe House School is a selective independent girls' day and boarding school in Cold Ash, a village near Newbury, Berkshire, for girls aged 11–18.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.tatler.com/guides/schools-guide/2012/public/downe-house )〕 The ''Good Schools Guide'' described Downe House as an "Archetypal traditional girls’ full boarding school turning out delightful, principled, courteous and able girls who go on to make a significant contribution to the world".〔(Profile ) on the Good Schools Guide〕 ==History== Downe House was founded in 1907 by Olive Willis, its first headmistress, as an all-girls' boarding school. Its first home was Down House in the village of Downe, Kent (now part of the London Borough of Bromley), which had been the home of Charles Darwin.〔Atkins 1976, pp. 106–110.〕 By 1921 Down House was too small for the school, so Willis bought The Cloisters, Cold Ash, Berkshire, to which the school moved in 1922, and where it remains. It now accepts day pupils but is still predominantly a boarding school. (詳細はThe Times'', which had allowed them to drive up fees for thousands of parents.〔(Independent schools face huge fines over cartel to fix fees - Times Online )〕 Each school was required to pay a nominal penalty of £10,000 and all agreed to make ''ex-gratia'' payments totalling three million pounds into a trust designed to benefit pupils who attended the schools during the period in respect of which fee information was shared. However, Mrs Jean Scott, the head of the Independent Schools Council, said that independent schools had always been exempt from anti-cartel rules applied to business, were following a long-established procedure in sharing the information with each other, and that they were unaware of the change to the law (on which they had not been consulted). She wrote to John Vickers, the OFT director-general, saying, "They are not a group of businessmen meeting behind closed doors to fix the price of their products to the disadvantage of the consumer. They are schools that have quite openly continued to follow a long-established practice because they were unaware that the law had changed." Downe House won the ''Tatler'' 'Best Public School Award' in 2011. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Downe House School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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