Katherine Gulliver
The 2012 Nutbrown Review of early education and childcare qualifications found 445 early years qualifications at different levels. Two years later, the government responded by launching the Early Years Educator qualification.
A new national study exploring early years degrees (Campbell-Barr, Bonetti, Bunting & Gulliver, 2020), published by the University of Plymouth and the Education Policy Institute, and funded by the Nuffield Foundation, calls on the Government to act now to end the huge variations in these qualifications.
All children have the right to quality early education and care. Early years practitioners with degree qualifications are crucial to improving the quality of services and children’s outcomes.
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