Matthew Raggett


Matthew Jonathan Raggett is an educationist, 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 resigned in January 2020. He was the fourth Englishman in Doon's history to head the school, appointed after a gap of 46 years after the last English headmaster, C. J. Miller retired in 1970. He was a member of The Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference, UK.

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.

Career

Raggett was the secondary principal of Leipzig International School till 2016. He then joined the Doon School, succeeding Peter McLaughlin as the tenth headmaster of the all-boys school in Dehradun. In April 2018, he featured prominently in Indian Summer School, a Channel 4 documentary and educational experiment in which three working class British boys spent a few months in Doon with the purpose of improving their grades.
At Doon, Raggett introduced the IGCSE assessments for Grade 10, in addition to the previously existing International Baccalaureate and the Indian School Certificate. Along with the board of governors, Raggett has focused 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 has also written 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 personal reasons. 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.