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Free nursery education has so far had no impact on the reading and maths skills of children entering primary one, according to a study of pupils in Aberdeen. The council's education department...
Early years consultant Margaret Edgington has started a petition seeking to protect the Foundation Stage for three- to five-year-olds, which has a firm emphasis on learning through play, from the more...
Three years on, the work of early years partnerships is up for evaluation. Annette Rawstrone hears their critics and defenders The future of Early Years Development and Childcare Partnerships (EYDCPs)...
What kind of questioning and adult-child interactions really extend children's thinking and language? Iram Siraj-Blatchford and Laura Manni explain
Early Childhood Education (3rd edition) By Tina Bruce (Hodder Arnold, 0 340 88972 1, 17.99, 020 7873 6000) Reviewed by Marian Whitehead, language and early years consultant
A new initiative is training early years practitioners to recognise and advise parents on their learning needs, says the Basic Skills Agency
Lawton, who is managing director of Our Monkey Club, was one of a number of people in the sector working on the Level 5 Early Years Lead Apprenticeship standard, which was approved for delivery in...
by Alex T Smith, Hodder Children's Books, hardback, 10.99
Of all the initiatives pushed through by the Government in the past few years, the Transformation Fund seems to have caused the most confusion and suspicion. It is very difficult to engage with...
Help parents understand how their instinctive way of talking to a baby will boost language development, says Opal Dunn Parents do not always realise that it is from their chatter, monologues and...