"The architect told me that it was a wonderful place, but Nusajaya was developed when I arrived," Mr. Pick, the master of Marlborough College Malaysia, said in an interview on-campus.
Nusajaya is now home to the first international campus of Marlborough College, the English boarding school that was founded in 1843 and counts the poet Siegfried Sassoon and the Duchess of Cambridge, the former Kate Middleton, as pupils. About 20 percent of its 350 students are Malays.
"We are not a franchise, but an expansion," said Pick. "We see this as two schools together."
On 36 hectares Malay, the equivalent of about 90 hectares, Marlborough has extensive sports facilities, including indoor sports complex with retractable seating, an all-weather floor hockey and a cricket pitch, which the house of Mr. Pick faces. In the classrooms, wooden benches are lined up two by two and children climb around in uniform chess.
The satellite campus, which began operations in August, is part of the Iskandar EduCity, a government initiative to build an affiliate educational center in Johor state bordering Singapore. It 'also part of a wave of elite colleges establish campuses in Western Asia.
Harrow International School of Hong Kong opened in September under a franchise agreement with secular Harrow School in England, whose alumni are the poet Lord Byron, the former Prime Minister Winston Churchill and India's first prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Another graduate is Bo Guagua, son of disgraced former official of the Communist Party of China Bo Xilai, the Chinese mainland and the mayor to attend the main campus in Harrow Middlesex.
Harrow also has offices in Beijing and Bangkok.
Meanwhile, Branksome Hall Asia opened in October in an education hub Jeju Island, South Korea, as a sister institution of Branksome Hall, a private school girls 109-year-old "in Toronto.
The schools are tapping into the needs of Asian parents who want their children to get a high-quality foreign educational style while remaining close to home. There is also the desire to escape local school systems, which focus more on exams and rote learning.
Vivienne Fung, 40, a former lawyer and mother of two children, said by telephone that she and her husband were put off by the traditional approach in many local Hong Kong schools, where students tend to spend much of their time after school homework or classes private tutoring. His sons, 5 and 4, are among the first students of the newly opened Harrow.
"We are not in rote learning, we prefer to learn," said Ms. Fung. "There is a general perception that many of the most popular schools in Hong Kong tend to focus more on academic achievement and, in so doing, accepts only children academically brightest and also expect them to take extra lessons outside of school . "
Harrow, he said, has "a holistic much more than many other schools in Hong Kong, focusing not only on academic achievement, but also put a great emphasis on the development of every individual into a citizen of the world."
Harrow Hong Kong campus, built on a 3.7-acre site of a former military barracks, is the third to be built outside of Britain. In its inaugural year, has admitted about 740 boys and girls, including 180 boarders. Expects to have 1,500 students once all the buildings are completed.
Schools Marlborough, Branksome and Harrow have had a hand by local governments in building their Asian subsidiaries.
The government of Hong Kong Harrow assigned land for a nominal fee, and also gave an interest-free loan of construction is 273 million Hong Kong dollars, or $ 35 million, the South China Morning Post.
Marlborough Malaysia, like other institutions in EduCity, received preferential tax treatment by the government, even if the developer did not want to comment on the financing and land use.
An agency of the South Korean government gave Branksome Hall Asia a loan of $ 170 million of investment, which has been raised from private investors and will be paid over 23 years. One of its objectives is to maintain the highest number of students at home.
Nusajaya is now home to the first international campus of Marlborough College, the English boarding school that was founded in 1843 and counts the poet Siegfried Sassoon and the Duchess of Cambridge, the former Kate Middleton, as pupils. About 20 percent of its 350 students are Malays.
"We are not a franchise, but an expansion," said Pick. "We see this as two schools together."
On 36 hectares Malay, the equivalent of about 90 hectares, Marlborough has extensive sports facilities, including indoor sports complex with retractable seating, an all-weather floor hockey and a cricket pitch, which the house of Mr. Pick faces. In the classrooms, wooden benches are lined up two by two and children climb around in uniform chess.
The satellite campus, which began operations in August, is part of the Iskandar EduCity, a government initiative to build an affiliate educational center in Johor state bordering Singapore. It 'also part of a wave of elite colleges establish campuses in Western Asia.
Harrow International School of Hong Kong opened in September under a franchise agreement with secular Harrow School in England, whose alumni are the poet Lord Byron, the former Prime Minister Winston Churchill and India's first prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Another graduate is Bo Guagua, son of disgraced former official of the Communist Party of China Bo Xilai, the Chinese mainland and the mayor to attend the main campus in Harrow Middlesex.
Harrow also has offices in Beijing and Bangkok.
Meanwhile, Branksome Hall Asia opened in October in an education hub Jeju Island, South Korea, as a sister institution of Branksome Hall, a private school girls 109-year-old "in Toronto.
The schools are tapping into the needs of Asian parents who want their children to get a high-quality foreign educational style while remaining close to home. There is also the desire to escape local school systems, which focus more on exams and rote learning.
Vivienne Fung, 40, a former lawyer and mother of two children, said by telephone that she and her husband were put off by the traditional approach in many local Hong Kong schools, where students tend to spend much of their time after school homework or classes private tutoring. His sons, 5 and 4, are among the first students of the newly opened Harrow.
"We are not in rote learning, we prefer to learn," said Ms. Fung. "There is a general perception that many of the most popular schools in Hong Kong tend to focus more on academic achievement and, in so doing, accepts only children academically brightest and also expect them to take extra lessons outside of school . "
Harrow, he said, has "a holistic much more than many other schools in Hong Kong, focusing not only on academic achievement, but also put a great emphasis on the development of every individual into a citizen of the world."
Harrow Hong Kong campus, built on a 3.7-acre site of a former military barracks, is the third to be built outside of Britain. In its inaugural year, has admitted about 740 boys and girls, including 180 boarders. Expects to have 1,500 students once all the buildings are completed.
Schools Marlborough, Branksome and Harrow have had a hand by local governments in building their Asian subsidiaries.
The government of Hong Kong Harrow assigned land for a nominal fee, and also gave an interest-free loan of construction is 273 million Hong Kong dollars, or $ 35 million, the South China Morning Post.
Marlborough Malaysia, like other institutions in EduCity, received preferential tax treatment by the government, even if the developer did not want to comment on the financing and land use.
An agency of the South Korean government gave Branksome Hall Asia a loan of $ 170 million of investment, which has been raised from private investors and will be paid over 23 years. One of its objectives is to maintain the highest number of students at home.
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