Nursery World - Anger at proposals to replace EYPs with EYTs

Early Years Professionals say they feel sidelined by Government plans to replace them with Early Years Teachers.

Ministers acknowledge that EYPs have helped improve the quality of early education, 'but public recognition of their status remains low'. They say they want more high-quality graduates to work in early years and that Early Years Teachers will build on the strengths of EYPS.

In an interview with Nursery World, minister Elizabeth Truss said, 'The early years teacher is going to be required to pass the same tests on literacy and numeracy as school teachers. We'll be setting that out in teacher standards - Charlie Taylor will be doing that in due course through the Teaching Agency.

'We also want to see more flexibility between early years teachers and primary teachers and we want to see more primary teachers in early years and vice versa.'

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