If the amendments to the Education Bill go through, Montessori and Steiner qualifications would be accredited on the Qualifications and Curriculum Framework and both organisations would be exempt from the generic Level 3 Diploma for the Children and Young People’s Workforce which was launched last September.
The Lords has also made recommendations that staff with responsibility for children aged two years and up should have five GCSEs and that nursery managers should be at graduate level.
At a grand committee meeting in the House of Lords (28 June), Conservative peer Lord True said, ‘If Montessori qualifications are not included on a recognised list, Montessori schools will not be able to fulfil their quota needed for Montessori-qualified teachers. The same goes for Steiner schools. I submit that this would be absurd.'
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