Two free NVQ courses are offering residents of a housing association in London the chance to brush up on their parenting and childcare skills. Residents of Octavia Housing and Care, which manages...
A major conference on the impact of the forthcoming SEN and Disability Act for children and young people with disabilities in schools and colleges is to be held in London next month. 'Preparing for...
Congratulations to all the students who have achieved their degrees in Early Childhood Studies, and well done, Nursery World, for such up-to-date and relevant articles as 'My student life' (17 April)....
I was concerned to read Germaine Greer's comment about childcarers (Quote of the week, 22 August). When considering formal, that is, paid-for childcare in the UK today, her statement could hardly be...
Children need to learn only 100 words before moving straight on to reading books, a new study claims. Researchers at Warwick University Institute of Education analysed more than 900,000 words from...
Jump for Joy is the title of a new support pack from Niels Larsen, the gymnastics equipment company. The pack complements the company's range of equipment and is divided into three sections: Frolic,...
Learning from others in nine- to 18-month-old infants. Infants aged nine, 14, and 18 months in the United States were placed in problem-solving situations, where the experimenter gave hints and...
What do you get if you cross a frog with a bee? Well, the UK early years sector is about to find out, and the resulting creature will be the largest in the nursery garden.
There are some hopeful nods for the early years in recent Conservative comments.