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GCSEs U-turn praised, but questions remain

Monday, March 20, 2017

| Nursery World

The sector has welcomed the early years minister Caroline Dinenage’s decision to reinstate functional skills as alternatives to GCSEs in English and maths for Level 3 qualifications.

Do graduates and ratings really make no difference?

Opinion

Monday, March 6, 2017

| Nursery World

Following a study claiming that graduate staff and Ofsted Outstandings have little impact on children’s outcomes, a group of early years academics take issue with its methods

GCSE Level 3 rules scrapped as Early Years Workforce Strategy is released

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Friday, March 3, 2017

| Nursery World

Functional skills will be reinstated as alternatives to GCSEs in English and maths for Level 3 qualifications, the early years minister Caroline Dinenage confirmed today.

Early years apprenticeship group dismissed in GCSE deadlock

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Friday, February 17, 2017

| Nursery World

The Government has dispensed with the Early Years Apprenticeship Trailblazer Group following a long-running stand-off over the inclusion of ‘reasonable equivalents’ to GCSE English and Maths in the new Level 3 apprenticeship standard.