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Founding Head

Founding Head

Rugby School Japan

Japan

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Job type:
Full Time, Fixed Term
Start date:
September 2022
Apply by:
27 August 2021

Job overview

Founded in 1567, Rugby School is one of the world’s most famous and successful co-educational boarding schools. Rugby enjoys a global reputation for its whole-person education, in which academic excellence is balanced with outstanding opportunities in sport, music, drama, art and co-curricular activities. Due to open in 2023, Rugby School Japan will be founded on the same aims and ethos as its 450-year-old sister and will be a co-educational boarding and day school with the capacity to educate 750 pupils aged 11-18 years. 

Rooted in the belief that ‘the whole person is the whole point’, education at Rugby goes beyond the classroom and the acquisition of knowledge to focus on the formation of character. This will be achieved at Rugby School Japan through a focus upon academic rigour, complemented by sports, the creative and performing arts and a wide ranging co-curricular programme. Rugby School Japan will sit on a striking new campus located 30 minutes from Central Tokyo, with an enrichment campus in Hokkaido where students will spend time each year.

The Founding Head will take up post in September 2022 to oversee the pre-opening and launch of the school. This is a unique opportunity for a pioneering and forward-looking leader who will set a clear vision for success whilst promoting the ethos and mission of a Rugby education. They will have an appreciation and interest in Japanese culture, and a drive to bring the best of British education and innovative thinking to the school. They will possess the ability to form strong relationships with staff, pupils and parents in Japan, and with the wider Rugby School Group, including Rugby School Thailand, which was founded in 2017. They will also bring a clear vision for the school’s future as one of Asia’s top British schools.

A candidate brief and details of how to apply are available from http://www.odgers.com/83301

CVs and cover letters should be sent by the closing date, Friday 27 August 2021.

Rugby School Japan is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers, the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and a local police check.

About Rugby School Japan

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+81 7168 0536

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Rugby School Japan opened in Kashiwanoha (“Oak Leaf”) Smart City, Chiba Prefecture (Greater Tokyo), in September 2023, championing a new era of British international education in Japan. It is Rugby’s second international sister school. The School is a co-educational day and boarding school based on a campus within walking distance of a baseball stadium, football pitch, lake and running track in Kashiwanoha Park.

Rugby School Japan is situated in an urban campus in Tokyo, occupied by two of the best universities in Japan: Chiba University and Tokyo University.

Tokyo is one of the largest metropolises in Asia, and Rugby School Japan is the first of the British Public Schools to be established in the city.

Rugby School Japan shares Rugby’s ethos of ‘the whole person, the whole point’. The School believes in taking education beyond the classroom and nurturing the whole person – in mind, body and spirit – to give students a holistic sense of self and to enable them to achieve in all areas of life. Rugby School Japan aims to become a benchmark for British education worldwide.

Rugby School

Rugby School is a co-educational boarding and day school situated in the English county of Warwickshire. Founded in 1567, it is one of the original ten English public schools defined by the Public Schools Act 1868. Today, the School has 850 students aged 13 to 18 housed in 15 houses, 13 of which are for boarders and 300 students aged 3 to 13 at its Prep school, Bilton Grange. In 2019, Rugby achieved record results at GCSE and A-level, and has been described by Tatler as ‘a school at the top of its game’. Rugby has produced Prime Ministers of European nations, an Archbishop of Canterbury, and a Nobel Peace Prize winner. Rugbeians have contributed to stage and screen, to politics, the arts, philosophy, medicine and public life. They have upheld justice as judges and law makers; helped run governments, schools, universities; founded businesses; and won Olympic gold medals. In 1823, it is said that, during a game of football at the School, Rugby student William Webb Ellis caught the ball and ‘with a fine disregard for the rules… took the ball in his arms and ran with it, thus originating the distinctive feature of the rugby game’.

Rugby’s greatest Head Master, Dr Thomas Arnold (1828-42), transformed British education and formed the model that many other schools have since adopted. He recognised a modern concern – that education should address the formation of character, going beyond an understanding of learning as simply the acquisition of knowledge. Towards the end of the 20th century, the boys’ school once favoured by England’s monarchs became thoroughly co-educational. In 1975, three girls were admitted into the sixth form, and in 1992 the first 13-year-old girls arrived. The School is now almost equally populated by boys and girls. Rugby is national and international in outlook and recruitment, with boys and girls from all over the UK and 10% from overseas. As widening access to Rugby remains central to the School’s aims, the Arnold Foundation for Rugby School was set up in 2003 to fund places for students who stand to gain the most from a boarding school education. The opening of Rugby School Japan is the next step in this rich history, as Rugby proudly takes its educational philosophy international to make a difference across the world.

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