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Schools accused of exploiting apprenticeships for cheap labour

News

Wednesday, September 13, 2017

| Nursery World

Schools are advertising teaching assistant apprentice jobs at just £3.50 an hour, according to new analysis.

DfE consults on improving Functional Skills qualifications

News

Tuesday, September 12, 2017

| Nursery World

The Department for Education (DfE) is seeking views on proposed subject content for reformed Functional Skills qualifications in English and mathematics.

Early years language training boosts children's skills

News

Wednesday, September 6, 2017

| Nursery World

An early years speech, language and communication training programme has been shown to speed up children’s development by five months, an independent evaluation has found.

Tackling recruitment shortfalls as 30 hours comes in

Opinion

Monday, September 4, 2017

| Nursery World

Extra free childcare hours – music to the ears of parents up and down the country, but recruitment challenges mean the delivery might not be so straightforward, warns Ms Gray.

Workforce Strategy, Part 2: Level 3 - Levelled out

Features

Monday, September 4, 2017

| Nursery World

With the number of Level 3s completing courses falling by more than half, the sector is still in the grip of a recruitment crisis. What can the Workforce Strategy do, asks Charlotte Goddard

Sector feels the strain after fall in new Level 3s

News

Monday, September 4, 2017

| Nursery World

A big drop in the number of learners qualifying with a Level 3 between 2014 and 2016 has put a ‘significant strain on early years settings’, according to awarding bodies and training providers.

Training Talk - Moonbeams and more

Features

Monday, September 4, 2017

| Nursery World

One conference is opening minds to early creativity. By Gabriella Jozwiak

Editor’s view - On the level

Opinion

Monday, September 4, 2017

| Nursery World

Liz Roberts looks at the lasting impact of the fall in numbers of Level 3 students

Positive Relationships: Male Practitioners - Men at work

Features

Monday, September 4, 2017

| Nursery World

In Glasgow, an ‘Approved by Dads’ training programme is getting men – many of them fathers – into the childcare profession, to the benefit of participants, settings and children, finds Annette Rawstrone

RCN flags dangers of huge drop in school nurse numbers

News

Tuesday, August 29, 2017

| Nursery World

The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has warned that children are being put at risk by cuts to school nurse positions.

Spotlight on…Stacey Turner

News

Sunday, August 20, 2017

| Nursery World

Author of I’m Going to Nursery

'Inadequate' Learndirect stopped from taking new apprentices

News

Thursday, August 17, 2017

| Nursery World

Learndirect, the biggest provider of childcare apprenticeships, has had its Government funding withdrawn after it was found to be inadequate by Ofsted.

Training Talk - Child obesity

Features

Monday, August 7, 2017

| Nursery World

A course on obesity enabled Kim Powell to deliver her own training courses on healthy eating

Workforce Strategy, Part 1: Level 2 - Making a start

Features

Monday, August 7, 2017

| Nursery World

In a new series on the workforce strategy, Charlotte Goddard looks at plans to revise entry level early years qualifications

Spotlight on…Faith Schofield

News

Sunday, August 6, 2017

| Nursery World

Level 3 practitioner at The Railway Children Nursery in Coventry

New research finds childcare has poor record on minimum wage

News

Thursday, August 3, 2017

| Nursery World

Childcare bosses are among the most likely not to pay the minimum wage, two recent reports have found.

Spotlight on…Sam Green

News

Monday, July 24, 2017

| Nursery World

Position: Owner of Green Garden Childcare in Bitterne, Southampton

Visit early education in India with Nursery World

News

Wednesday, July 19, 2017

| Nursery World

There's not much longer to book for Nursery World and Master Travel's fantastic tour of early years services in India.

SEND charity launches online training resources

News

Tuesday, July 18, 2017

| Nursery World

Special educational needs charity nasen has launched its first early years training webcasts.

Training Today: Skills Plan - Less is more?

Features

Friday, July 14, 2017

| Nursery World

The Skills Plan marks a huge reform of vocational education. What is it, and why does it matter for the early years? Hannah Crown reports

Travelling tutors offer Froebel training

News

Thursday, July 13, 2017

| Nursery World

A new set of short courses on the Froebelian approach has been launched by Early Education and the Froebel Trust.

Training Talk - Hands-on learning

Features

Monday, July 10, 2017

| Nursery World

Lauren Coates took a School Centred Initial Teacher Training course at the well-regarded Centre for Research in Early Childhood. By Gabriella Jozwiak

Training Today: Continuing Professional Development - Screen learning

Features

Monday, July 10, 2017

| Nursery World

In the search for high-quality and reasonably priced training for early years practitioners, Nicole Weinstein looks at the innovative solutions on offer from three online training companies

Training Today: Workforce Strategy - Will it work?

Features

Monday, July 10, 2017

| Nursery World

The long-awaited workforce strategy needs to tackle staff recruitment, retention and underpin quality provision. Is it the blueprint the sector needs? asks Charlotte Goddard