One of the most time-consuming, and frequently irritating, tasks undertaken by teachers and managers is collecting money from children for lunches, outings, fund raisers and the like. Now TH Jordan...
Nursery nurses in Falkirk, Stirling and Dundee will join the second wave of industrial action across Scotland this week for better pay, followed by East and West Dunbartonshire on 5, 6 and 7 August....
Never mind the couch potatoes, now we should worry about the pushchair puds. Research published this month by Professor Jane Clark of the University of Maryland, USA, has found that babies and...
Groups of young people aged 11 to 20 who have made a special contribution to their community this year are being invited to enter the Philip Lawrence Awards. The annual competition is held in memory...
Prime minister Gordon Brown obviously believes that a price and quality comparison website for childcare provision will put the sector at the forefront of the 'information revolution' (see News, page...
by Pat Beckley, Karen Elvidge, Helen Hendry (Open University Press, 21.99, ISBN: 978-0-33523-615-2). Reviewed by Julian Grenier, head teacher of Kate Greenaway Nursery School and Children's Centre.
Professor Kathy Sylva, one of the authors of the EPPSE study, explains why new research into early education places and children's outcomes contradicts their findings.
Get ready for this year's unmissable exhibition, running on 11-12 February at London's Business Design Centre, with a preview of what's on show from Karen Faux.
The playwork sector is in danger of becoming a 'diluted workforce' unless the quality of play qualifications improves, according to a playwork educator. Speaking at last month's conference of the...