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In my view: Support is appreciated

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, November 18, 2008
    • | Nursery World
Support staff in schools have for years been treated as the poor relations in the education system, with low and unequal pay, often only in term-time, bad working conditions and few training opportunities. All too often, they are expected to take on far too much responsibility.

Opinion: In my view - Let's direct them upward

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, November 11, 2008
    • | Nursery World
Children from low-income backgrounds who performed well in tests at age two are, by the age of six or seven, overtaken by previously less-able children from better-off families. This trend was shocking when revealed for those born in 1970. But research commissioned by the Sutton Trust on children born around the Millennium showed that these patterns had hardly changed in 30 years. The rising and falling academic fortunes of children during the early years remains one of the clearest examples of how low educational and social mobility manifests itself in modern Britain.

Opinion: In my view - Keep fathers involved

    Opinion
  • Wednesday, October 29, 2008
    • | Nursery World
When a link between high father-involvement and child IQ at age 11 was reported (Nursery World, 9 October), no-one at the UK's Fatherhood Institute was surprised. The Institute, which collates and publishes fatherhood research, has seen this link reported before.

Opinion divided on flexible working

    Opinion
  • Wednesday, October 29, 2008
    • | Nursery World
Reports that the Government may row back from extending the right to seek flexible working have been met with a mixed reaction from charities, childcare organisations and nursery providers.

Opinion: Editor's view

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, October 21, 2008
    • | Nursery World
Why doesn't nursery food figure in plans for improving the quality of children's lives?

Opinion: The time for well-being

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, October 21, 2008
    • | Nursery World
Last week, Ofsted finally published its draft well-being indicators for schools. Framed by global financial panic and the sudden removal of KS3 tests, this previously incendiary notion was met with little more than a splattering of commentary.

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