From May, all nursery employees will have the chance to enrol on the Open University Certificate in Early Years Practice, which is an open-access course. Asquith is fully funding it at a cost of around 1,000 per candidate. The course usually starts in February, but the OU is running an intake in May exclusively for the nursery group.
Liz Richardson, Asquith Nurseries' childcare and education director, said more than 500 staff had expressed an interest so far.
'We want as many people as possible to do it. It's a fairly unique opportunity to train this number of staff to this level.'
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