Under measures for next year's budget, Glasgow City Council is proposing to replace the city's nursery school teachers with nursery nurses, now called child development officers (News, 10 November 2005). It is believed that around 37 nursery school teachers could be affected.
A final decision is expected on 9 February when councillors meet to discuss the 2006/2007 budget.
A group of teachers and parents also delivered a petition against the plans to the council's offices on Saturday.
Scotland's largest teaching union, the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS), which led the rally, said the quality of nursery education would suffer because less qualified staff would replace qualified nursery teachers.
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