School support staff are adding theory to practice and becoming teachers thanks to some innovative schemes. Mary Evans reports
Go-ahead early years settings are coping with the sector’s workforce crisis by attracting quality apprentices and improving their recruitment tactics, discovers Gabriella Jozwiak
Pennie Akehurst, managing director of Early Years Fundamentals, discusses the changes she has seen in inspections since the advent of the new Education Inspection Framework
While the past 90 years may have seen the demise of ‘lady nurses’, the Truby King method and woollen underwear, the same core issues crop up time and again, as Hannah Crown discovers
Children flourish when they are given the chance to have control of their own decisions and activities, writes Jennie Lindon A sense of physical and emotional well-being can and should start with...
Developing self-discipline in young children should be through discussion rather than rules and rewards, says Tina Bruce There are two main approaches that can be taken to fostering the moral, social...
Can Margaret Hodge overturn New Labour's patchy record on early years? Professor Helen Penn has suggestions for the minister overseeing an integrated approach. Margaret Hodge has been appointed...
The University of East London’s Ivana La Valle and Eva Lloyd, who were involved in the most recent evaluation of the 30 hours entitlement, discuss the key findings of their report and how the policy...
On entering Reception, children are exposed to the world of 'formal' language. In the third part of our series on communication, Dr Anna Theakston explains what it is and how to support it.
Professor Kathy Sylva, one of the authors of the EPPSE study, explains why new research into early education places and children's outcomes contradicts their findings.