Brighton College International Schools
BCB will be the third Brighton College International Schools (BCIS) to open around the world.
The others are:
Brighton College Abu Dhabi - the first of Brighton College’s sister schools overseas opened in Abu Dhabi on a state-of-the-art campus in 2011 and has a current roll of 1,600 pupils.
Brighton College Abu Dhabi is the first in a series of schools in a partnership between Brighton College International Schools and Bloom Properties, part of National Holding of Abu Dhabi.
Brighton College Al Ain - opened in 2013. By 2018, the college will educate 1,200 pupils across the 3 to 18-age range on its state-of-the-art campus, located in the ancestral city of the ruling family of the United Arab Emirates.
VISION
BCIS’s vision is to work with investors to open a series of premium international sister schools modelled upon Brighton College. Each school shares Brighton College UK’s aims and ethos, achieved by focusing on:
- Appointing excellent teachers
- Supporting excellent and inspirational teaching
- Support outside the classroom - to consolidate and to extend
- A balanced life at school
AIMS & ETHOS
A Brighton College education seeks to impart or provide:
- a love of learning for its own sake
- a foundation of knowledge and body of skills with which to understand and question the world we live in and to prepare us, through an innovative approach to education, for the world we are likely to inhabit in the future
- an awareness of, and appreciation of, the spiritual dimension in our lives
- an enthusiasm for the world beyond the classroom - in particular, sport, music and the performing arts
- a respect for difference in others and a recognition that the efforts and achievements of every individual in our community are valued equally
- an awareness of the needs of others, and a firm belief that - whatever our age - we can make a difference, locally and globally, right now
BRIGHTON COLLEGE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLS TEAM
PROFESSOR LORD SKIDELSKY is Chairman of the Board of Governors of Brighton College. Lord Skidelsky is a past pupil of the College (1953-58) and went on to read History at Jesus College, Oxford. He is Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Warwick, an acclaimed author and the prize-winning biographer of John Maynard Keynes. Robert Skidelsky was raised to the Peerage in 1991.
RICHARD CAIRNS, MA (OXON), FRSA has been the Head Master of Brighton College since 2006. He has presided over a hugely successful period in the College’s 170-year history, recording the best A-level results of any co-educational school in England every year from 2008-13, which led to the College being named The Sunday Times Independent Secondary School of the Year 2011-12. He holds a First Class degree in History from Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Governor of several other schools. He was named by Tatler as Headmaster of the Year in 2012.
PAUL WESTBROOK joined Brighton College UK in July 2009 from KPMG, where he led the mergers and acquisitions teams. During Paul’s tenure as Bursar, the College has undergone a sustained period of development with the erection of two new 900 square-metre buildings for a state-of-the-art Design & Technology suite and classrooms, a new senior common room and café, and a lower school for Year 7 & 8 pupils. He is also a Governor of the London Academic of Excellence and is the Finance Governor of Handcross Park School, a member of the Brighton College family of schools. Paul is a parent of three Brighton College UK pupils.
IAN MCINTYRE, MA is Director of Schools at Brighton College International Schools, responsible for the company’s business development, investor relationships, school pre-opening phases and delivery. He taught in the UK independent sector for almost 20 years and was headmaster of two schools prior to joining BCIS. As Director of Education from 2010-15, he oversaw the development of Brighton College’s first two sister schools in the Middle East.
DARREN COXON, BA, PGCE (CANTAB) is Director of Education at Brighton College International Schools. He has worked in senior leadership in both the state and independent sectors in the UK as well as being Housemaster at Aiglon College in Switzerland. Darren works closely with the Director of Schools in managing the planning, development and implementation of all educational, staffing and operational aspects of each newly-planned school, as well as having oversight of quality assurance in each of Brighton College’s sister schools.
RISHI SONI, BSC, ACA is the Commercial Director of Brighton College International Schools. Rishi was educated at Brighton College (1991-96) and studied Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Leeds. He worked at KPMG for 12 years, where he qualified as a chartered accountant and spent 8 years in corporate finance working on a wide range of M&A transactions, fund raising and corporate restructurings. Rishi is responsible for assessing new international school opportunities and working with BCIS’s investors to plan and develop each overseas school.
NED MURRAY, BA is Education Officer at Brighton College International Schools. Ned read Political Science and International Relations at the University of Birmingham before briefly working as journalist and in a research office at the University of Oxford. He taught History and Politics at Brighton College UK for 2 years, before taking up a full time role in BCIS in July 2013. Ned is responsible for researching new territories and markets, the company’s marketing and PR, as well as supporting the Director of Education with the educational set-up in each new school.