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A recent development has seen Jasmine naming colours spontaneously. She clearly knows pink, purple, blue (boo) and orange (noringe). Sometimes she identifies green (geen) too. She likes to build...
The Government's aim of having every early years practitioner qualified to at least Level 3 by 2015 is looking far from achievable, given the funding crisis for childcare work-based courses and...
In the second part of his series exploring the revised Development Matters guidance, Dr Julian Grenier looks at the newly included terms ‘curriculum’ and ‘pedagogy’ and explains what they mean in the...
Role play and small-world play themes are often beyond the experience of many young children. The dentist's surgery, the vet's, the farm, even the beach, are places that children may have visited only...
The first nursery chain to float on the stock market began trading on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) last month with shares valued at five pence. Creative Educational Corporation plc, trading...
Contrasts between early years provision in different countries can help us reflect on whether education is for teaching children readiness for life, argue David Whitebread and Sue Bingham.
Last week's online question was 'Should Sure Start be a universal service or just for disadvantaged families?"
New standards for the NVQ Playwork Level 2 recognise the challenges that older children need, says Gail Bushell 'Play is what I do when everyone else has stopped telling me what to do.'