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A positive perspective

    Opinion
  • Monday, June 15, 2015
  • | Nursery World
The Starfish Story, originally written by Loren Eiseley in 1969, is familiar to many, but it's worth repeating from time to time to remind us that everyone can make a difference.

Functional skills tests are a joke!

    Opinion
  • Friday, August 21, 2015
  • | Nursery World
As students receive their GCSE results, Ross Midgley, managing director of PBD Early Years Training, argues that functional skills testing is not rigorous enough to ensure good standards.

Opinion: In my view - Will schools be ready?

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, January 19, 2010
  • | Nursery World
Under the Government's new schools admissions plan, parents will be able to reserve places in reception classes for up to a year for their four-year-olds, while enjoying free full-time early years education in maintained or non-maintained nursery provision.

Opinion: In my view - Mind the duty of care

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, February 16, 2010
  • | Nursery World
Childminders are a key component of the wraparound provision that the Government rightly prioritised in its ten-year childcare strategy. Schools need to recognise this valuable contribution that childminders make to some pupils' lives.

A competent system?

    Opinion
  • Monday, April 6, 2015
  • | Nursery World
Mathias Urban argues that caring for nursery age children is a public good and a public responsibility, and that early childhood education is about how we as a society imagine our future.

Nursery Equipment: Editor's view

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, May 4, 2010
  • | Nursery World
Early years settings are paying ever greater attention to the quality of provision for children under three, and practice has come a long way since the introduction of the Birth to Three Matters framework.

Understanding Loss

    Opinion
  • Monday, November 16, 2015
  • | Nursery World
Many children in early years settings experience the loss of a parent and they all need support, says Professor Cathy Nutbrown

Planning for peace

    Opinion
  • Monday, August 25, 2014
  • | Nursery World
Early years practitioners must make peace a priority, argues Professor Cathy Nutbrown

Editor’s view - The policy gap

    Opinion
  • Monday, December 11, 2017
  • | Nursery World
In these weeks running up to Christmas, the problems of inequality, disadvantage and lack of social mobility in our country come into ever-sharper focus, as both our regular columnists highlight.

Opinion: In my view - Start with the buildings

    Opinion
  • Wednesday, January 30, 2008
  • | Nursery World
Everyone agrees that children deserve the best possible start in life, and that our nursery provision should reflect the critical importance of the early years in shaping young lives. Yet it's a sad fact that in today's Scotland, the quality of provision depends on where you live.

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