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Professor Nutbrown answers your questions

We had a huge response to Professor Cathy Nutbrown's request for Nursery World readers to send her questions and comments about her review, Foundations for Quality.

In particular, there were many concerns about Professor Nutbrown’s recommendation that there should be a new early years specialist route to Qualified Teacher Status that should eventually replace Early Years Professional Status.

Here, we run a few extracts from these questions, along with Professor Nutbrown’s full response, as well as selected comments about other aspects of the report.

I would be really interested to know why you feel the need for EYPs (with BAs in early years or indeed anyone with a BA or higher in early years) to obtain an additional level 6 qualification on top of the 2 they already hold ( your suggested EY QTS)? …..

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