Gabriella Jozwiak explores Pearson's optional units for the Early Years Educator qualification, which have been put together with expertise from bodies such as PACEY and Skills Active.
It seems that 2005 is going out with a bang rather than a whimper, with the news that Lesley Staggs is leaving her post as national director of the Foundation Stage (see News, page 4). The sound of...
National Parents' Week this week has been marked by the publication of several reports into family life today in the UK, including Making Britain Family Friendly from the National Family and Parenting...
Ask any nursery or pre-school manager what they dislike about their job and it's the bureaucracy and paperwork that usually top the list. Everybody accepts that a certain amount is necessary to...
Practitioners from a range of childcare and early years education settings had an unprecedented chance last week to question children's minister Margaret Hodge about Government policy at a round table...
The weather may be getting hotter, but the crisis over delays with criminal record checks is reaching boiling point (see News, page 4). It is appalling that with the current recruitment shortages in...
1 Results of Ofsted inspections Ofsted inspection results have been included to show how well providers meet the new National Standards. Parents must be confident that providers accredited under the...
So, you think you can deal with any unlikely eventuality in your setting? See how well you do in this quiz by Mairi Maciver 1 A staff member resigns and requests a reference. She isn't happy with it...
Pots and pans are too versatile a resource to be confined to the kitchen. Jean Evans shows why
The new roles for teaching assistants envisaged by the DfES are explained by Ruth Thomson The career cul-de-sac that has trapped classroom assistants for decades in low-paid and often unrewarding...