Voting time is fast approaching, and we’ve summarised the early years pledges of the main parties on page 7.
Explore the world under the water with an exciting new Foundation Stage project by nursery school headteacher Ann Adb El Kader This project provides opportunities for children to learn about marine...
In the face of much concern about some aspects of the draft Early Years Foundation Stage, welcome news came this week that the Department for Education and Skills is proposing to put back the...
More reassuring noises came from the Government in the past week about its continuing commitment to expanding childcare, as trade and industry secretary Patricia Hewitt took to the stage at the...
The Government's 'cross-cutting' review of childcare policy which has finally been published makes for fascinating reading (see News, page 4), not least for the acknowledgement that 'important...
The news that neither early years nor playwork have succeeded in their bids to be one of the trailblazer Sector Skills Councils (see page 4) is not a terribly encouraging start to the new year, when...
Happy New Year from everybody at Nursery World. As practitioners and policymakers get back into the swing of things and contemplate another year packed with change and development, it's a good point...
It's hard to remember when a Government appointment was met with quite such an enthusiastic welcome. The news that Lesley Staggs has become the first-ever national director of the Foundation Stage is...
Nursery World's regular section about Early Years Professional Status, sponsored by CWDC, is now online at www.nurseryworld.co.uk/eypupdate.
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