Montreux Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==Education== In Montreux about 7,464 (33.2%) of the population have completed non-mandatory [[Education in Switzerland#Secondary|upper secondary education]], and 3,171 or (14.1%) have completed additional higher education (either [[List of universities in Switzerland|university]] or a {{Lang|de|[[Fachhochschule]]}}). Of the 3,171 who completed tertiary schooling, 39.8% were Swiss men, 25.3% were Swiss women, 19.8% were non-Swiss men and 15.1% were non-Swiss women.<ref name=STAT2000/> In the 2009/2010 school year there were a total of 2,106 students in the Montreux school district. In the Vaud cantonal school system, two years of non-obligatory pre-school are provided by the political districts.<ref>[http://www.scris.vd.ch/Default.aspx?DomId=1990 Organigramme de l'école vaudoise, année scolaire 2009-2010] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304075019/http://www.scris.vd.ch/Default.aspx?DomId=1990 |date=2016-03-04 }} {{in lang|fr}} accessed 2 May 2011</ref> During the school year, the political district provided pre-school care for a total of 817 children of which 456 children (55.8%) received subsidized pre-school care. The canton's [[primary school]] program requires students to attend for four years. There were 1,056 students in the municipal primary school program. The obligatory lower secondary school program lasts for six years and there were 931 students in those schools. There were also 119 students who were home schooled or attended another non-traditional school.<ref name=Vaud_Education>[http://www.scris.vd.ch/Default.aspx?DomID=2403 Canton of Vaud Statistical Office - Scol. obligatoire/filières de transition] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160425115309/http://www.scris.vd.ch/Default.aspx?DomID=2403 |date=2016-04-25 }} {{in lang|fr}} accessed 2 May 2011</ref> {{as of|2000}}, there were 490 students in Montreux who came from another municipality, while 790 residents attended schools outside the municipality.<ref name=commuter/> ===Public libraries=== Montreux is home to the ''Bibliothèque municipale de Montreux et Veytaux'' library. The library has ({{as of|2008|lc=on}}) 48,948 books or other media, and loaned out 99,490 items in the same year. It was open a total of 274 days with average of 28 hours per week during that year.<ref>[http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/de/index/themen/16/02/02/data.html Swiss Federal Statistical Office, list of libraries] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150706231342/http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/de/index/themen/16/02/02/data.html |date=2015-07-06 }} {{in lang|de}} accessed 14 May 2010</ref> ===Private schools=== The Riviera School or École Riviera, an international school, is in Montreux.<ref>"[http://ecole-riviera.ch/contact-us/?lang=en Contact] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161202232947/http://ecole-riviera.ch/contact-us/?lang=en |date=2016-12-02 }}." Riviera School. Retrieved on March 6, 2016. "Avenue des Planches 25, 1820 Montreux"</ref> Other local schools include [[Surval Montreux]] (an international [[All girls school|all girls]] [[boarding school]]) and [[St George's School in Switzerland]] (British international school, in [[Clarens, Switzerland|Clarens]]).<ref>{{Cite web |title=About Us |url=https://www.stgeorges.ch/our-school/about-us |access-date=2022-10-26 |website=St. George's International School Switzerland |language=en |archive-date=2022-10-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221026173527/https://www.stgeorges.ch/our-school/about-us |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Boarding School in Switzerland for Girls {{!}} Surval Montreux |url=https://www.surval.ch/ |access-date=2022-10-26 |website=www.surval.ch |archive-date=2022-10-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221026173527/https://www.surval.ch/ |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Institut Monte Rosa]], an international co-educational boarding school, is in [[Territet]].<ref>"{{cite web |url=http://www.monterosa.ch/en/Contact.html |title=Contacting our school | Institut Monte Rosa - International School |access-date=2016-06-01 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160322212052/http://www.monterosa.ch/en/Contact.html |archive-date=2016-03-22}}." [[Institut Monte Rosa]]. Retrieved on June 1st, 2016. "Avenue de Chillon 57, 1820 Montreux"</ref> [http://smbs-montreux.ch/ Swiss Montreux Business School] Private [[hospitality school]]s in the area include [[Swiss Hotel Management School]] (in [[Caux, Switzerland|Caux]]), [[Hotel Institute Montreux]] (Montreux), and [[Glion Institute of Higher Education]] ([[Glion]]).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Hospitality Management School in Switzerland {{!}} Glion |url=https://www.glion.edu/locations/switzerland/ |access-date=2022-10-26 |website=Glion Website |language=en-GB |archive-date=2022-10-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221026173523/https://www.glion.edu/locations/switzerland/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=SHMS Caux Campus |url=https://www.shms.com/en/about-swiss-hotel-management-school/caux-campus/ |access-date=2022-10-26 |website=Swiss Hotel Management School |archive-date=2022-10-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221026173523/https://www.shms.com/en/about-swiss-hotel-management-school/caux-campus/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. 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