This is a new seminar, aimed at Heads of Rugby, Directors of Sport, Co-Curricular Deputies and anyone responsible for devising and delivering a programme of Rugby Football in a school.   It is a response to the incremental pressures on the game over recent years, and the uncertain impact of the missed “covid-season” and further unfavourable publicity regarding the game’s dangers. 

Schools need to respond positively in order to maintain a viable Rugby programme into the future.  This will require a clear understanding of the threats to the game, a strategy to address these and proactive communications before the game re-starts for the 2021/2 season.

• Assessing the pre-pandemic school Rugby landscape
• Anticipating threats to the game
• Identifying the successful school programme of the future
• The legacy of the missing “Covid-season”
• Impacts of recent adverse publicity
• Choice, compulsion and culture
• Retaining a critical mass of players
• Collaboration and competition
• A strategy for the future
• Proactive communications
• The role of the Modern Head of Rugby

Dates

This course will be run in person when circumstances allow.  Until then, there will be an online version - of very limited numbers - consisting of two, separate, evening sessions of about 1.5 hours each

Online:   11 March & 18 March   7-8.30pm

Face to Face:  Monday 14 June, Oxford,  10.00am – 3.30 pm