Nursery World - Room at the top (3)

The route to the top managerial post of a nursery is no longer through childcare experience alone. Patricia Slatcher reports on the skills and training that are now needed to take on senior management roles The traditional route of nursery nurse to manager has been through experience, grabbing your opportunities and only then undertaking a management qualification. But there is a transition under way that could mean such a qualification will soon be a prerequisite for the job.

and training that are now needed to take on senior management roles The traditional route of nursery nurse to manager has been through experience, grabbing your opportunities and only then undertaking a management qualification. But there is a transition under way that could mean such a qualification will soon be a prerequisite for the job.

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'There is an increasing emphasis on business skills, as opposed to just childcare experience, and future managers should be looking to the NVQ4 in childcare and education that includes training in such skills,' says Rosemary Murphy, chief executive of the National Day Nurseries Association.

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