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Minister for children Margaret Hodge faced a grilling from early years and childcare delegates last week who demanded higher pay to combat the problem of staff retention and recruitment. During a...
I am delighted to be writing this as the new president of the National Childminding Association (NCMA). I have worked with the organisation during its 30-year history and have seen first hand how the...
Every playworker hates to hear this dreaded phrase. Alex Marker looks at some of the reasons behind its utterance, and some stratagems to get around it one of the pleasures of teaching at a youth...
The Letters and Sounds programme of synthetic phonics, introduced following the Rose Review of how children are taught to read, is potentially a troublesome scheme for early years practitioners to...
Children from low-income backgrounds who performed well in tests at age two are, by the age of six or seven, overtaken by previously less-able children from better-off families. This trend was...
At a recent conference I listened to a presentation on the Early Years Professional initiative. As a training provider this development strikes me as very sound. It marks the coming of age of the...
Part 7: Trainee EYT Emma Davis juggles experiments with microgravity and finding evidence to hit the early years teachers’ standards
A peaceful Christmas and best wishes for a better 2021 to all our readers, suppliers, clients and the whole of the amazing early years sector.
When the Government revealed that it is considering making it mandatory for all early years staff to be qualified to at least level 3 (Nursery World, 4 February), it caused quite a stir.
The Scottish Executive's early intervention programme has succeeded in boosting numeracy in primary schools, education minister Jack McConnell claimed last week. Two HM Inspectorate of Education...