The call by Alan Bentley, chairman of nursery group Childcare Corporation, for the private nursery sector to form a new trade association to represent its interests may seem to have come out of the...
Level 4 qualifications NVQ level 4 in Early Years Care and Education
Continuing our series, Charlotte Goddard considers the value of Level 4 qualifications and the courses on offer
A new level 5 apprenticeship standard has been approved for the early years sector – but only meets Level 3 requirements.
The introduction of child tagging technology in nurseries around the UK does not have quite the same sinister undertones as the use of internet cameras, but it does seem to be a gimmick at best and to...
Thousands of early years and childcare workers are currently unable to undertake a Level 5 qualification in childcare because there is no Government funding available to them.
The three main political parties have been busy making statements about parenting and work-life balance during and leading up to their annual conferences (see News, pages 5 and 6). A major...
The Cambridge Primary Review has garnered compliments from the early years sector for its recommendation of extending the EYFS approach upwards and raising the school starting age to six (see News,...