Sarah is 34. Her children are now settled in school and she is keen to return to work, preferably in a local day nursery. With her experience of young children and her previous work role as a customer service supervisor, she is a strong candidate to become a room leader or deputy manager after she has achieved an Early Years Educator (EYE) qualification.
However, under new rules just announced by the government, Sarah’s EYE will not allow her to count towards the qualified staff ratio unless she has also achieved Grade C GCSEs in maths and English.
Sarah – who has no trouble with day to day maths but who always struggled with algebra and trigonometry at school – is prepared to study for the exams, but doesn’t much relish the idea of going to college for a year before starting work. Now that she has more time on her hands, she would much rather do the maths at the same time as her work for the EYE.
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