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Opinion: Editor's view

    Opinion
  • Wednesday, October 10, 2007
    • | Nursery World
It's time young children stopped being used as guinea pigs for public entertainment.

Letters: We're in it together

    Opinion
  • Wednesday, October 10, 2007
    • | Nursery World
I believe Jon Richards' column (20 September) responding to Purnima Tanuku's 'Profit or Loss' feature (13 September) highlights a division in understanding.

Online ... See who's saying what at www.nurseryworld.co.uk

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, October 2, 2007
    • | Nursery World
I chose childcare because I didn't want to be stuck behind a desk or checkout, even though I could earn more doing that kind of work. I love working with children and I know that working in this sector can open many doors. - Kezzie - Nursery nurses' wages

Letters: Letter of the week - Let's have a debate about ourprofits

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, October 2, 2007
    • | Nursery World
I was pleased to read Purnima Tanuku's article on why making a profit is essential to a healthy nursery (Special report, 13 September). She is right when she says that profit is a word that we avoid in the early years sector because the idea that a setting is 'making money' out of parents and children is abhorrent.

In my view: In a quick-fix culture ..

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, October 2, 2007
    • | Nursery World
In a quick-fix culture, it's easy to imagine children can grow up faster too. But you can't speed up the growth of an organism as complex as a human being.

Letters: In defence of the NVQ

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, October 2, 2007
    • | Nursery World
What a shame that the writer of 'Does Ofsted get the full picture?' (Letters, 6 September) has such a poor experience of NVQ training at levels 2 and 3. My colleague and I were horrified to hear of the NVQ assessor's appalling practice. One has to wonder how a self-respecting assessor could make an objective judgement regarding the competency of the learners in the manner described.

Letters: Hang on to that paper

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, October 2, 2007
    • | Nursery World
Further to Laura Henry's article on record-keeping (Policies and procedures, 23 August), I would remind Nursery World readers that current regulations indicate that they should retain their Employers' Liability Insurance Certificates for a period of 40 years from the commencement of their insurance policy. It seems a very long time, but we did have an Employers' Liability case recently that commenced in 1988!

To the point ..

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, September 25, 2007
    • | Nursery World
Parents need to be encouraged to ask difficult questions, says Pat Wills.

In my view: The impossibly perfect parents

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, September 25, 2007
    • | Nursery World
My belief is that the 'parenting industry' is marketing a simplified and unrealistic view of parenting, which is based on the notion that to be a parent is a series of problems to be solved and techniques to be mastered.

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