The Founding Principal of Rugby School Japan wishes to appoint a dynamic and inspirational Finance Manager to commence duties in Japan from April 2025 or as soon as possible.
Rugby School Japan
RSJ is the second international sister school of Rugby School, one of the UK’s most prestigious and well-known schools. It shares Rugby’s aims and ethos, and aspires to be one of Asia’s top schools. RSJ is an international co-educational day and boarding school for 11-18-year olds, located on a spectacular campus in Kashiwa-no-ha, 30 minutes by train from central Tokyo. The School opened in September 2023, offering its students Rugby’s academic and co-curricular programmes, leading to IGCSE and A-level studies, and access to the world’s leading universities. A Rugby education focuses upon the importance of developing the whole person.
Rugby School
Founded by Royal Charter in 1567 during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, Rugby is one of the world’s most famous boarding schools. Today, it educates 850 students aged 13 to 18 and 360 boys and girls in its Prep school. Described by Tatler as ‘a school at the top of its game’, Rugby’s students achieve outstanding GCSE and A-level results within an educational environment where the whole person is the whole point.
The cornerstone of a Rugby education is its focus upon the importance of an all-round education in the tradition of its greatest Head Master, Dr Thomas Arnold (1828-42), who transformed British education in Victorian England and developed the model that many other schools have since adopted. He recognised, as Rugby continues to do today, that education should address the formation of character, going beyond an understanding of learning as simply the acquisition of knowledge. In the words of the current Executive Head Master of the Rugby School Group, Peter Green: “Our goals are to foster academic excellence, to nurture individual talents, and to equip our boys and girls with the tools to maximise their individual learning. Critical thinking, memory skills, goal setting and the use of new technology are blended with reflection, self-awareness and stillness. And through service we aim to form young people who can contribute intelligently and effectively to the welfare of society. In other words, the whole person is the whole point.”
Rugby’s House structure has been central to its strong sense of community for almost 200 years. Its 15 Houses, led by their Housemasters and Housemistresses, together with a team of Tutors, each have their own unique character and offer a true home away from home.
Throughout its 455-year history, 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 lawmakers, helped to run governments, schools and universities, founded businesses and won Olympic gold medals. During a game of football at the School in 1823, 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’. In 2023, Rugby will mark the Bicentenary of the game.
The Rugby School Group is now committed to developing a worldwide family of schools, shaped by Rugby’s distinctive educational ethos, offering girls and boys around the world the opportunity to benefit from a Rugby education. In 2017, its 450th year, Rugby’s first international sister school opened in Thailand on a striking 80-acre campus outside Bangkok and now educates 850 students.
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