Bury College has opened a new nursery managed by the Fisherfield Farm Nursery Group. Places are for students with young children and for members of the local community.
The Liberal Democrats have raised the stakes in the debate on early years education in the run up to the Scottish parliamentary elections by calling for a full-time 'transition' year at age five so...
The number of two-and three-year-old children attending independent schools in the UK has risen dramatically in the past year, according to figures from the Independent Schools Information Service...
A nursery threatened with closure has resolved a complex lease dispute with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and will operate as a private nursery from August (News, 5 May). Nursery manager...
A window into different cultural worlds: young children's everyday activities in the US, Brazil, and Kenya The daily activities of 79 three- year-olds from four cultural groups, evenly divided by...
The establishment of another organisation to represent nanny agencies has been criticised by the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (see News, page 4). REC believes the Association of Nanny...
The crisis of childcare recruitment and salaries is intensifying as Government investment pours into neighbourhood nurseries and extended schools. The private sector is being particularly badly hit,...
The Sun appealed to parents to send in pictures of their children sitting on the 'naughty step', made famous by supernanny Jo Frost. The paper ran a two-page feature on Monday with snaps of 14...
The Foundation Stage Profile national results for 2004 have been released (see News, page 4). But will publication of percentages of children working towards, meeting or exceeding early learning goals...
Revelations from the Soham murder trial about how a man with many allegations of rape and underage sex against him managed to get a job as a primary school caretaker should lead to some changes in the...