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Outdoor nursery group Little Forest Folk is launching its own Level 3 Forest School Leaders qualification in May.
The consultation on a new apprenticeship standard is ‘deeply flawed’ and ‘bordering on a joke’, sector leaders have said.
A nationwide survey into pay and fee rises is being carried out by Nursery World and we would like to hear from nursery owners and managers. Are you struggling to award staff pay rises while keeping...
Functional skills will be reinstated as alternatives to GCSEs in English and maths for Level 3 qualifications, the early years minister Caroline Dinenage confirmed today.
CACHE has confirmed that the Level 3 Extended Diploma for the Children and Young People's Workforce has now been accredited with UCAS points. This means the two-year, full-time course is equivalent to...
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...
At the moment all childcare workers are being encouraged to achieve NVQ status at Levels 2 or 3. I am a childminder and recently worked long, hard hours - including many evenings and weekends - to...
Awarding body CACHE is lobbying colleges to help gather support for a new two-year diploma at level 3, in response to concerns raised by training providers and employers that the new CWDC Diploma for...
Just two early years employers were consulted during the development of the much-criticised Level 3 Diploma for the Children and Young People's workforce, Nursery World can reveal.