British private schools chase new money in New York and Singapore


SINGAPORE (Bloomberg): Rugby School is steeped in over 400 years of history. Its playing fields are where a pupil invented the game of rugby in 1823, exhibiting "a fine disregard” for the rules of football. Parents can buy into this prestige for roughly £59,000 per year, per child.

This autumn, one class of Rugbeians is beginning its studies over 3,000 miles from those famous Warwickshire fields.

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