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

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  • 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.

Share your thoughts on two-year-old ratios

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  • Thursday, February 1, 2024
  • | Nursery World
Researchers from the Institute of Education at Nottingham University are asking for early years professionals and nursery managers and leaders to share their experiences of the recent changes to ratios for staff and two-year-olds in the EYFS.

Sector quick to respond to the EYFS review

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  • 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.

Budget: Compulsory academies plan slammed

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  • Wednesday, March 16, 2016
  • | Nursery World
Government plans to end local authority control of the country’s schools have been slammed as ‘undemocratic’ and an ‘ideological step too far’ by teaching unions and local authorities.

Ofsted calls for early years experts

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  • Thursday, August 30, 2018
  • | Nursery World
Ofsted is calling for academics, researchers and practitioners to apply to take part in a new early years forum to debate early years teaching and practice.

Baseline pilot go-ahead sparks outcry

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  • Friday, March 1, 2019
  • | Nursery World
The move by the Department for Education (DfE) to press ahead with the Reception baseline and invite schools to take part in a trial of the assessment, starting in the autumn, has been met with frustration from the early years sector.

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