DOING YOUR EARLY YEARS RESEARCH PROJECT: a step-by-step guide. By Guy Roberts-Holmes. (17.99, Paul Chapman). Reviewed by Nicola Gray, BA nursery management student This book goes through the whole...
By Mark Dudek, architect specialising in the early years and author of Children's Spaces I find the Government criteria intended to verify value for money and so-called 'fitness for purpose' in new or...
The Government's aim of having every early years practitioner qualified to at least Level 3 by 2015 is looking far from achievable, given the funding crisis for childcare work-based courses and...
A series of consultation events on children's play are being staged around England by the Department for Education and Skills and the Department of Culture, Media and Sport. The events in Halifax (7...
Staff are poorly paid, settings heavily reliant on Government funding are worse off financially, and qualification levels looks to be falling, finds Ceeda’s first About Early Years survey
If you are setting up a nursery from scratch, or if you want to reorganise your existing setting's space, be sure to read our 'All About...' eight-page guide this week. There has been little sound...
A playwork specialist who admitted making nearly 400 pictures of child pornography has been given a six-week jail sentence.
The success of the free nursery education scheme for two-year-olds could depend on nurseries working together with local authorities and other early years providers. Karen Faux hears from those who...
Nursery World wishes to make it clear that while examples of bad practice in beacon schools were cited by some delegates at a National Campaign for Nursery Education conference in London last month,...