The EA offers a wide range of professional support, teaching resources, and networking opportunities for colleagues in secondary and further education, whether you’re a teacher, teaching assistant, education consultant, or adviser. Our membership spans independent and maintained schools, sixth-form and further-education colleges, and multi-academy trusts, as well as library services and independent consultants.

Much of the work we do in secondary and further education is linked to our work in primary/early years and higher education, so that as a member of the EA you will have the opportunity not only to deepen your subject knowledge and develop your practice, but also to connect with colleagues in other sectors and learn about the journeys of your students before and after they enter your classroom.

On our website you will find a range of resources including:

We also offer members the opportunity to take part in an EA Hub, which bring together teachers in schools, colleges, and universities to share ideas, build teachers’ subject knowledge, and enrich their professional experience.

Our work in secondary and further education is driven by the Secondary and Further Education Committee, working alongside our other Education Committees. Members of the SFEC bring a mix of expertise and experience from across the discipline, including teachers, heads of department, librarians, teacher-trainers, assessment specialists and freelance education consultants.

The SFEC meets six times a year to:

  • Respond to consultations on national education policy
  • Work to increase uptake of English at A Level and in higher education
  • Provide opportunities for teachers to develop their subject knowledge
  • Organise conferences and events for teachers and other working in education
  • Advise the Poetry By Heart consortium on the development and delivery of the national poetry recitation competition
  • Participate in the Common English Forum, which meets regularly with the Department for Education
  • Liaise with other subject associations to promote and defend English studies
  • Act as the editorial board for the EA’s secondary and FE journal, The Use of English

The SFEC is currently chaired by Matt Carnaby. Matt has led on Curriculum and Assessment in MATs for over five years. Before this he led on English from EYFS to KS5 in a medium sized MAT. He completed his degree and teacher training at the University of East Anglia and spent over a decade working in schools. He has worked with the Department for Education and Ofqual in relation to English. His particular interests are in teacher development, curriculum and assessment, and the teaching of reading and writing.

Other members of the SFEC

Freddie Baveystock, English teacher (Harris Westminster Sixth Form)

Molly Bird, Faculty Leader for English and Media (The British School of Brussels)

Elizabeth Draper, post-16 English and Education Specialist

Chris Green, Director of English and Drama (The Perse School, Cambridge) (co-Editor of The Use of English)

Kirsty Haughton, Head of English and Literacy at Nottingham College

Jo Heathcote, English curriculum and assessment consultant

Dr Brittany Kuhn, English teacher at Suffolk New College (co-Editor of The Use of English)

Tracey Maloney, Director (e-Qualitas)

Dr Rebecca Morris, Reader in Education Studies (University of Warwick)

Sarah Mullin, Visiting Professor of Education (Sunderland University)

Afsan Redwan, Deputy Head: Sixth Form (Milton Keynes College Group)

Angela Rodrigues, Deputy Head of Sixth Form (The Cotswold School) 

Maud Sampson, Head of English and Media Studies (Central Foundation Girls’ School)

Helen Thomson, doctoral student and experienced teacher

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