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Children are being steered towards pleasing teachers over developing a genuine love of learning under proposed reforms to the Early Learning Goals, early years experts said yesterday.
Early years experts are seriously concerned that the new Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) will have a 'top-down' effect on the youngest children in daycare and that it is effectively a 'curriculum'...
Are more four-year-olds really starting Reception without being toilet trained, asks Alison Featherbe, and where does the fault lie?
Last week, new analysis of the early years workforce revealed a troubling picture of the sector, with a downward trend in the proportion of qualified staff and the prospect that in the future the...
Why has the recent proposal to extend the national curriculum to include the Foundation Stage got early years experts up in arms? Mary Evans asks them
Safari Kid International, which has five settings in this country, will now operate under the name Kïdo in the UK and the US.
Help is at hand for settings preparing to offer funded places for two-year-olds in 'Are you ready for me -now I'm 2?'. Its authors, the Cheshire East Early Years and Childcare Team, explain how it...
* Parents and practitioners should make the most of the learning opportunities provided by cooking with, rather than for, young children, says a new book from Early Education. Jane Khan, author of...
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...
An awareness campaign to encourage parents and early years workers to talk more with children under two is developing training for early years practitioners one year after it started. 'Tune into...