Matthew Raggett
Matthew Jonathan Raggett (born 1972) is a British educator, writer and the former Headmaster of The Doon School, the all-boys boarding school in Dehradun, India. He succeeded Peter McLaughlin in 2016, becoming the tenth headmaster of the school. Raggett left Doon in January 2020 and returned to Germany. He was the fourth Englishman in Doon's history to head the school and was a member of The Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference, UK. Jagpreet Singh succeeded him as headmaster, and joined the school in June 2020. Education. Raggett went to the University of Newcastle and received a BSc  in Physics and Applied Maths, a PGCE from the University of Worcester and then an MBA from Charles Sturt University in Australia. He credits the time he spent working for the United World Colleges, at Pearson College and UWCSEA, Singapore, as instrumental in his development as an international educator. Career. Raggett was the Secondary Principal of Leipzig International School from 2009 – 2016. He then joined the Doon School, succeeding Peter McLaughlin as the tenth Headmaster of the all-boys Round Square school in Dehradun. In April 2018, he featured prominently in "Indian Summer School", a Channel 4 documentary and educational  experiment in which five working class British boys spent a six months in Doon with the purpose of improving their grades. At Doon, Raggett worked to improve the quality of teaching and learning, grow the provision for pastoral care and implement the Cambridge IGCSE assessment for Grade 10 that the previous board and Headmaster had introduced. This was in addition to developing the already existing International Baccalaureate and Indian School Certificate programmes. Along with the board of governors and the DSOBS, Raggett focused on making more scholarships available to those in need and on making the school more accessible to  boys from parts of India that were less represented at Doon in the past decade, especially the Northeast and South India. He wrote "Your Child's First Steps Towards Success" and "How Your Child Can Win in Life" both published by Juggernaut Books in 2019. In January 2020, he stepped down as the tenth headmaster of Doon, citing the need to return to Germany to be closer to his daughter and wife. Raggett now leads an educational consultancy, MR Ed Partners, based in Leipzig, Germany, which helps global institutions improve their pedagogical practices in various ways, including better design and  architecture. MR Ed Partners is currently working with VITALIS European Projects to develop their offerings for students and teachers coming to Germany through the Erasmus programme.