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Nursery chains slam 'inadequate' Children and Young People's Workforce diploma

Monday, June 27, 2011

| Nursery World

Dissent is growing among major nursery providers over inadequacies in the content of the new Level 3 Diploma for the Children and Young People's Workforce.

New Code of Practice to safeguard Montessori ethos

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Tuesday, June 21, 2011

| Nursery World

Montessori settings will be expected to sign up to a new Code of Practice to endorse their professionalism and the quality of their early years provision.

Experts press MPs not to isolate childminders in Ofsted revamp

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Monday, June 13, 2011

| Nursery World

A group of childminding experts, many of them at the forefront of professionalising the sector, have written to the chair of the Education Select Committee to protest at its proposal to split childminding from all other areas of early years provision under plans to re-organise Ofsted.

Question mark over future of EYPs

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Friday, June 10, 2011

| Nursery World

Children's minister Sarah Teather cast doubt on the future of Early Years Professional status in her ministerial address to delegates at the National Day Nursery Association's annual conference.

EYPS providers miss chance to bid for new course contract

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Tuesday, May 24, 2011

| Nursery World

More than 20 current Early Years Professional Status (EYPS) providers will be unable to bid to run the course from 2012 under the tendering process for the new three-year contract.

Analysis: Level three diploma for the children and young people's workforce - Fit for purpose?

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Tuesday, May 17, 2011

| Nursery World

No sooner has the new diploma been launched as the single qualification for the workforce than it is being called into doubt. Karen Faux hears why

Analysis: Early Years Foundation Degree - Students may have to pay a high price

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Tuesday, May 3, 2011

| Nursery World

Funding for the early years foundation degree is being withdrawn by some local authorities, with a damaging impact on EYP Status and career prospects for the workforce. Karen Faux investigates.

Capita scraps Strategies' replacement amid concerns over budgets

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Tuesday, April 12, 2011

| Nursery World

Edsight, the education consultancy set up by Capita to fill the gap left by the closure of National Strategies last month, has been axed.

CWDC given go-ahead to re-design EYPS

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Tuesday, April 5, 2011

| Nursery World

The Children's Workforce Development Council (CWDC) has been awarded nearly 17m for the next financial year to redesign the Early Years Professional Status qualification and roll out the New Leaders in Early Years scheme.

Schools require 'new training on special needs', study finds

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Tuesday, March 29, 2011

| Nursery World

New teaching methods are needed to help schools cope with a growing number of children who have increasingly complex special needs and disabilities, according to new research.

Analysis: Support and training from local authorities in jeopardy

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Tuesday, March 15, 2011

| Nursery World

How will local authority cuts in advisory services and staff affect support for the early years sector, asks Janet Murray.

Advisors to scrutinise early years qualifications and training

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Tuesday, March 8, 2011

| Nursery World

The Department for Education's early years steering group is to look at whether sector qualifications are 'fit for purpose'.

Analysis: EYPs are a force for good

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Tuesday, January 25, 2011

| Nursery World

The effects of graduate leadership training are analysed by Professor Mark Hadfield and Dr Tim Waller from the University of Wolverhampton's Centre for Development and Applied Research in Education.

Exclusive: The Minister's View - Upskilling the workforce

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Tuesday, January 25, 2011

| Nursery World

As a Government, we appreciate the value of a talented, committed, graduate-led workforce to help give every child the chance to thrive in their earliest years.

Montessori seeks to resolve qualifications delay

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Tuesday, January 18, 2011

| Nursery World

Representatives from the Montessori and Steiner awarding bodies are meeting with officials from the Children's Workforce Development Council and the Department for Education in London in the next few weeks to discuss the future of Montessori and Steiner qualifications.

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Nursery chains slam 'inadequate' Children and Young People's Workforce diploma

New Code of Practice to safeguard Montessori ethos

Experts press MPs not to isolate childminders in Ofsted revamp

Question mark over future of EYPs

EYPS providers miss chance to bid for new course contract

Analysis: Level three diploma for the children and young people's workforce - Fit for purpose?

Analysis: Early Years Foundation Degree - Students may have to pay a high price

Capita scraps Strategies' replacement amid concerns over budgets

CWDC given go-ahead to re-design EYPS

Schools require 'new training on special needs', study finds

Analysis: Support and training from local authorities in jeopardy

Advisors to scrutinise early years qualifications and training

Analysis: EYPs are a force for good

Exclusive: The Minister's View - Upskilling the workforce

Montessori seeks to resolve qualifications delay

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