Sometimes I consider the subjects in Professional Nanny and wonder if it's all getting a bit too touchy-feely. There's such a lot of emotional content - in this issue, for example, we look at a book...
The Department for Education and Employment has been warned that nursery schools across the UK are facing closure. The problem has been highlighted by a series of conferences for nursery school...
The group 38 Degrees is urging people to write to their MP to support an amendment to the Academies Bill to ensure that schools seeking academy status will have to consult the local community.
Tackling racism in the early years is the topic for conferences in London and Leeds next month. 'Tackling Race Hate, the role of early years providers: Accessing national and local initiatives to...
Mark the date in your diary - the first Professional Nanny conference on 4 October. Nannies are going to have their own agenda within Nursery World's annual Early Years and Primary Teaching...
For once I agree with the Professional Association of Nursery Nurses when it says that the Government is dumbing down daycare standards (News, 15 March). NVQ level 2 is too low for anything. I am also...
Two of the latest developments launched at the Educational Technology show in London last month were these giant Icon Cards and an inflatable remote control car, both from TTS. The cards are intended...
A total of 1,081 Nursery World readers took part, with one in five respondents coming from the south-east, 15 per cent from the Midlands, 11 per cent from the south-west and the rest fairly evenly...
I am a qualified NNEB with 15 years of experience behind me. I am also a registered childminder and take my job seriously. Many childminders have spent months in college doing courses on education,...
The Government's goal of eradicating child poverty by 2020 will only be met a quarter of the way at that stage, claims a leading social policy charity. A report published last week by the Joseph...