News of the funding comes in the same week that new government guidance warns local authorities not to cut back on nursery teachers.
Scotland's biggest teaching union, the Educational Institute of Scotland, said the funding for specialist courses was a welcome recognition of the value of qualified teachers in the nursery sector, but the guidance lacked 'teeth'.
There are fears that some local authorities are cutting back on qualified teachers in nurseries or sharing teachers across several nurseries.
The Concordat with the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (COSLA) includes a joint commitment to ensure every pre-school child has access to a teacher and increase the number of teachers with early years expertise.
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