Rosie Pressland was lying in her bath when she had a flash of inspiration that is set to revolutionise childcare training by delivering learning online. While her bathtime brainwave might not equate with the discovery of the Greek mathematician Archimedes, it could have a lasting impact on the early years sector.
As chairperson of her local early years partnership in the East Riding of Yorkshire, she was wrestling with the problem of how to encourage more people to access childcare training when it struck her: if people won't go to college then college must go to the people.
'I was in the bath. It is where I do most of my thinking as I can relax. I suddenly thought, we have to show people that training can be part and parcel of their lives. We have to bring the mountain to Mohammed.'
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