Nursery World - New degree-level apprenticeship standards on the way

A raft of high level apprenticeship standards covering leadership, quality improvement, equality and wellbeing are being developed.

Five new standards, up to level 7, were given the go-ahead by the Government last week as part of its trailblazers programme.

Last year, the trailblazers group, which is chaired by Chrissy Meleady and also has the Pre-School Learning Alliance, NDNA and nursery groups as members, devised a level 3 apprenticeship standard (which contains the Early Years Educator standard) which was accepted and published by the Government last year.

Now, the new list has been approved for development by skills minister Nick Boles, following a formal and informal consultation process with ‘several thousand’ employers in the sector, Ms Meleady said.

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