Nursery World - Early years ICT plan criticised

Four-year-old Kristopher Young and friends have a go with ICT at Scaraway Nursery in Glasgow A 3m package to help early years professionals with using computers in a pre-school environment has sparked claims by practitioners that the money could be better spent elsewhere.

A 3m package to help early years professionals with using computers in a pre-school environment has sparked claims by practitioners that the money could be better spent elsewhere.

Last week the Scottish Executive announced 3m in funding to support the first two years of an ICT strategy for early years and subsidise training of pre-school workers in the public, private and voluntary sectors.

But Judith Gillespie, development manager at the Scottish Parent Teacher Council, said she saw no advantage in training nursery teachers how to work ICT into a pre-school environment. She said, 'If money is limited, which it is, then I think that it's more important to spend it on things other than ICT.

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