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Experts demand end to phonics test plans

    News
  • Tuesday, February 15, 2011
    • | Nursery World
A group of early years experts, including academics and practitioners, have launched a petition calling on the Government to abandon plans to introduce a phonics-based reading test for all six-year-olds.

Arts campaigners condemn school cuts

    News
  • Tuesday, January 11, 2011
    • | Nursery World
The abolition of a flagship programme designed to foster creativity in children has been condemned by teachers and ambassadors of the arts as threatening the education of the most vulnerable children.

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.

Gove unveils Education White Paper

    News
  • Wednesday, November 24, 2010
    • | Nursery World
Reforms for all schools in England have been revealed by education secretary Michael Gove in his schools White Paper, 'The Importance of Teaching'.

League tables loom for EYFS Profile results

    News
  • Tuesday, November 16, 2010
    • | Nursery World
Early Years Foundation Stage Profile results are to be published by school for the first time, under proposals in the Department for Education's five-year business plan.

Ofsted backs phonics teaching plan

    News
  • Tuesday, November 16, 2010
    • | Nursery World
Phonics is an 'indispensable tool' that should be used to teach children how to read by age six, according to a new report by Ofsted.

Girls surpass boys in EYFS Profile scores

    News
  • Tuesday, October 19, 2010
    • | Nursery World
Girls continue to do better than boys in the early learning goals at the end of the reception year, according to the latest statistics from the Early Years Foundation Stage Profile results.

Communication champion seeks more emphasis on PSED

    News
  • Tuesday, October 12, 2010
    • | Nursery World
The review of the Early Years Foundation Stage might consider the option of an increased emphasis on personal, social and emotional development and communication and language, according to Communication Champion Jean Gross.

Poverty review head calls for revamp of early years

    News
  • Tuesday, September 21, 2010
    • | Nursery World
The early years should be re-named the Foundation Years, as part of a plan to reform education policy and target support for children from before birth to age five, according to the Labour MP who has been commissioned by David Cameron to investigate the way poverty is defined and how to tackle it.

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