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Nursery Equipment: Editor's view

    Opinion
  • Wednesday, December 3, 2008
    • | Nursery World
The Early Years Foundation Stage was intended to represent continuity in early years practice, sharing, as it does, the same principles as its predecessors, the Foundation Stage and Birth to Three Matters framework.

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.

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