Nursery World - Teachers' website

In recent times, the media has been awash with disturbing reports revealing a mounting malaise at the heart of the British education system, and within the teaching profession in particular. Unprecedentedly low levels of morale, and an ever-escalating haemorrhage of teachers from the profession are becoming the norm, with as yet unquantifiable negative consequences for both the quality of education our children are receiving and for children's long-term attitudes to learning. It is in this context that an important new website has recently been launched - Welfare Action for Surviving Teachers and Ex-Teachers (WASTE). Conceived and designed by concerned educationalists, its main intention is to provide teachers with a multi-faceted resource to help them make sense of their routinely challenging, and sometimes traumatic, experiences of modern teaching.

It is in this context that an important new website has recently been launched -Welfare Action for Surviving Teachers and Ex-Teachers (WASTE). Conceived and designed by concerned educationalists, its main intention is to provide teachers with a multi-faceted resource to help them make sense of their routinely challenging, and sometimes traumatic, experiences of modern teaching.

As this summer term has come to a close and teachers at last have some time to reflect on their lot, the WASTE website offers teachers an invaluable resource to help them both cope with their increasingly de-professionalised status, and empower them to challenge an increasingly 'politician-centred' education system.

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