Nursery World - Early Years Teachers - Part 6

In the final part of her training series, Charlotte Goddard discovers how one Teach First graduate went from working with very small life forms to educating very small humans.

Malaysian-born Ananda Rabindranath's first love is marine biology. As a child he was fascinated by the exploits of conservationist and explorer Jacques Cousteau. As a young man he was inspired to study marine biology at the University of St Andrews in Scotland and then moved into a doctorate on the effects of climate change on arctic plankton.

But having volunteered to work with children while at boarding school in India, Mr Rabindranath began to realise an academic career was not for him. 'I wanted to do something that would help others,' he says. 'I knew I was lucky to have had the education I did, and I had begun to realise that not everyone is so lucky.'

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