Head of EAL
Brighton College Bangkok
Thailand
- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Fixed Term
- Start date:
- August 2016
- Apply by:
- 12 February 2016
Job overview
Brighton College Bangkok wishes to recruit a dynamic, experienced and inspirational Head of English as an Additional Language to lead and manage the provision of this vital subject across the school. The successful applicant will work for the first year in Pre-Prep only, before coordinating EAL across the school from 2017.
BRIGHTON COLLEGE BANGKOK
Brighton College is delighted to be opening its third sister school in Bangkok, one of South East Asia’s most vibrant and successful capital cities. Brighton College Bangkok will open in August 2016, on an iconic and purpose-built 20-acre campus in central Bangkok, and will comprise of a Pre-Prep (for 500 pupils aged 2 to 9), a Prep School (for 600 pupils aged 9 to 13) and a Senior School (for 400 pupils aged 13 to 18), with a pupil capacity of 1,500.
Brighton College Bangkok will deliver the Brighton College curriculum, leading to IGCSEs and A-levels/IB Diploma, and its pupils will aspire to the leading universities of the world, including Oxbridge and the US Ivy League. The College will seek accreditation from COBIS and the UK’s ISC and membership of the HMC and IAPS.
Brighton College Bangkok will benefit from a partnership with Brighton College, the UK’s most academically successful co-educational school, and with Brighton College Abu Dhabi and Brighton College Al Ain, its two sister schools in the Middle East. The Brighton family of schools currently educates more than 4,000 pupils.
For more information, including application procedure, please read the attached Job Description and Person Specification. Closing date for applications is 12pm on Friday 12th February 2016. For more information on Brighton College’s successes, please read our latest Review, which can be found here: http://issuu.com/bcbrighton/docs/bc_autumn_review_2015_-_issuu?e=3014700/30601460
Brighton College Bangkok reserves the right to make an appointment during any stage of the process and as such early applications are strongly encouraged.
Brighton College Bangkok is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Should your application be successful, a disclosure will be requested from the UK’s Disclosure and Barring Service for British nationals; local police checks will be undertaken for successful applicants of other nationalities.
Attached documents
About Brighton College Bangkok
- Brighton College Bangkok
- 8 Soi Krungthep Kreetha 15/1, Krungthep Kreetha Road, Huamark, Bangkapi
- Bangkok
- 10240
- Thailand
About the College
Brighton College Bangkok is a dynamic and exciting school looking for enthusiastic and passionate teachers. The College is one of the best-performing and fastest-growing in the region. Regularly winning awards, Brighton College Bangkok is the only school in the world to be shortlisted for the last two years as British International School of the Year by Independent School Parent. Our academic results in 2023, as measured by the headline A Level pass rates, were the best in Thailand and would have put the school in the top three co-educational independent day schools in the UK. Investment continues in our superb facilities and campus year-on-year, with the recent complete regeneration of our Early Years and Prep recreational spaces and classrooms the addition of senior school specialist teaching classrooms, and much more.
This is a unique opportunity to join an exceptional and hard-working team with the united goal of ensuring that every child reaches their potential both academically and socially, by pushing boundaries and broadening horizons. The College offers exciting professional challenges for teachers who share our aim of developing well-educated, respectful, and intellectually curious men and women who are ready to take a full, active, and positive role in our world.
Our teaching staff join the College to become part of a world-class educational community within a region that offers exciting opportunities for travel and adventure. They understand the values of a British independent school, working with parents who expect the highest educational standards and talented pupils who are motivated to learn.
The College offers its teachers superb opportunities for professional development, in addition to a highly competitive package that includes medical insurance and free school places for dependent children. Brighton College Bangkok is a sister to England's School of the Decade (as named by The Sunday Times) and part of an international family of schools that includes Brighton College Abu Dhabi, Brighton College Al Ain, Brighton College Dubai, Brighton College Singapore, and for 2023 Brighton College Hanoi.
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