Marc Rowland
Marc is the adviser for improving outcomes for disadvantaged learners for the Unity Schools Partnership, a large cross-phase Trust based in the East of England.
Marc has worked / is working with numerous Local Authorities, Multi Academy Trusts, Research Schools, Teaching School Hubs, English hubs and groups of schools nationally on long term projects to support better outcomes for disadvantaged pupils. He has carried many area based programmes, from Cumbria to Cornwall focussed on the experiences of disadvantaged pupils in schools and classrooms nationally.
Marc is / has also been working with the Jersey government for six years on the introduction and
implementation of a ‘Jersey Pupil Premium’. This has led to a marked improvement in outcomes over time for disadvantaged pupils there.
Marc works with, and advises the Department for Education on addressing educational disadvantage in schools. He has worked with over 1000 individual schools to support them with their strategies to improve outcomes for disadvantaged pupils. Marc is the education adviser to the Driftwood Association, a Swiss charitable foundation running education and development projects in Nepal.
He was formerly director of the Research School at Rosendale Primary School in Lambeth, and the Deputy Director of the National Education Trust (now NET Academies Trust).
Marc’s most recent book ‘Addressing Educational Disadvantage’ was published in February 2021. The
second edition of his award-winning book, ‘An Updated Practical Guide to the Pupil Premium’, was published in December 2015 (John Catt Educational). His book ‘Learning without Labels’ was published by John Catt in March 2017.