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Mrs Viviane NERI, Principal
Route de Caux 28
CH-1823 Glion/Montreux

Tel : +41 21 963 73 11
Fax : +41 21 963 48 64
E-mail: info@ivpworld.com
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With 50 years of experience, Institut Villa Pierrefeu is a traditional Finishing School of the type the world expects from Switzerland. Elegant, exclusive and charming, it will prepare you for a role in the business world and society , aiming to help you become more effective in multicultural environments and dealings.

We offer several Finishing programmes:

1. Summer Course Programmes (Starting: June 14th or July 5th 2009)

   • IVP Diploma (36 weekly hours of class) or Higher Certificate (26 weekly hours of class) in IEP (International Etiquette & Protocol) courses: Two intensive programmes of International Etiquette (covering 20 countries), Protocol, Savoir-Vivre, Business Etiquette, Table Service, Hostessing, Floral Art & Table Decoration. (Extra courses: Public Relations, Personal Presentation, Cooking, Pastry, Oenology, Home Management, Art, Private classes in languages). Age: 18 to 40 (+). The full course is 7 weeks but it is possible to do 3 weeks in June or 4 weeks in July.

2. School Year Programme (Starting: January 11th 2009)

   • IVP Higher Certificate in Finishing course : One to three term programme of French or English (including preparation for official language exams such as the Alliance Française, Cambridge, TOEFL), International Etiquette, Protocol, Savoir-vivre, Table Service, Cooking, Floral Art & Table Decoration, Home Management. Age: 16 (+), average age: 20. 

   • Finishing courses are given on the IVP purposely designed campus and during the school year, language classes and boarding are given at Surval Mont-Fleuri (5 minutes from IVP)

3. Seminars and special training on request.

   • Examples of tailor-made programmes given on our own campus

     • Introduction to European manners and lifestyle to ladies from other cultures.
     • Intensive course in the customs and mores of European, American, Middle Eastern and Asian cultures.
     • Diplomatic usage and Protocol, International customs, European etiquette variations for VIP Ladies from another culture.
       

   • Examples of tailor-made seminars in other countries

     • In Japan: International customs one should know when travelling and when receiving foreign guests.
     • In the Middle East: Diplomatic Protocol, Precedence, European table manners and reception styles, Dress definitions for formal invitations.
     • Special private two to ten day courses, in their own residence, programme chosen from our list of subjects, adapted to the client’s culture and lifestyle.
     • One week course in an exclusive private school for girls, for the graduating students.
       

   • To protect the privacy of our “students” we do not give their names.

In all these programmes you will learn to apply theory in practice and develop your personal creativity whilst improving organizational skills.

Whether boarding on campus with first class accommodations or coming as a day student, you can personalize your timetable by selecting from the wide range of additional studies, activities and cultural trips to acquire and perfect skills that will help you in your private and professional life, today and in the future.

Alumni

To protect the privacy of our students we are asking you to contact former class mates by corresponding first with us at the school and we will then forward the messages and addresses. This is so we can check that the messages do come from an IVP Alumni and not just from anyone.

• Contact: Dipti from India (Jan - Jun 1983) would like to contact her former classmates. Please write to us and we will forward.

• Reunion: Alumni reunion 1979-1980 is being planned by Patricia & Marta (Colombia), Irazema (Mexico) and Claudia (Venezuela). All students from that year please contact us and we will forward.

• Contact: Melisa (Peru) would like to contact her friends who were at IVP in July & August 1994. She will be travelling to the Middle East soon and hopes to meet some of her classmates. Write to us.