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Creative Learning - Allowing individuals to flourish

    News
  • Monday, August 11, 2014
  • | Nursery World
Creative thinking is hugely undervalued in our society - but we must learn to think beyond the status quo, says Philip Bujak, recently retired chief executive of the Montessori St Nicholas Charity.

Free school meals on the rise

    News
  • Tuesday, May 18, 2010
  • | Nursery World
The number of pupils eligible for free school meals has risen dramatically, figures from the Department for Children, Schools and Families reveal.

A vision for post-2015

    Opinion
  • Monday, August 11, 2014
  • | Nursery World
Dame Tessa Jowell calls for renewed efforts on international commitments to early childhood development

Row over daycare stress claims

    News
  • Monday, September 12, 2011
  • | Nursery World
The debate about whether childcare raises stress levels in young children is in the spotlight again, following a research review by controversial psychologist Aric Sigman.

Gove makes partial U-turn over plan to axe Booktrust funding

    News
  • Tuesday, January 4, 2011
  • | Nursery World
Education secretary Michael Gove has partly reversed the Government's decision to axe the 13m grant for programmes which provide free books for babies and children, after the move was slammed by writers including the poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy and children's author Philip Pullman.

Look to our past, not Europe

    Opinion
  • Friday, February 8, 2013
  • | Nursery World
We should remember past mistakes in early years policy when trying to move forward or our youngest children will be in inappropriate environments, say Karen Wickett and Dr Verity Campbell Barr, lecturers in Early Childhood Studies at Plymouth University

Study finds little lasting impact from free hours

    News
  • Wednesday, May 25, 2016
  • | Nursery World
The £2bn a year free early years entitlement scheme has done little to boost education outcomes – because most children taking up the provision were already receiving childcare, a study has found.

Sector quick to respond to the EYFS review

    News
  • Wednesday, July 7, 2010
  • | Nursery World
Early years organisations and the childcare workforce have given a mixed reaction to the announcement by children's minister Sarah Teather that the Government is to review the Early Years Foundation Stage.

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