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Once again television has raised vital questions about nursery practice
The sustained fall in the number of nursery schools over the past years has been a crying shame. Their role as beacons of excellent practice and in developing great nursery practitioners has not saved...
I don't think that classroom assistants should get paid over any holiday periods. If they are not qualified nursery nurses, they don't deserve the same rights as nursery nurses if they are being used...
* The public has given strong support in three separate opinion polls to last month's strikes by 750,000 local government workers, including nursery nurses and classroom assistants. A Sky News poll...
The system of tax credits to help parents pay for childcare has been beset by problems of fraud and misuse since it started, but there are now signs that the current economic conditions will lead to...
Alan Milburn's report for the Government on social mobility has prompted much debate, with the role of higher education institutions in helping to eradicate the disadvantage of a less privileged...
New technology often gets a bad press. It ends up being blamed for many of society's ills, from young children becoming obese through inactivity because they are glued to the screen, to violence...
A project on animals offers huge scope for children's learning across the early years curriculum and a seemingly limitless list of animals on which to focus: pets, farm animals, minibeasts, birds,...
The Breakthrough Britain report from former Conservative party leader Iain Duncan Smith is likely to be influential in the policy-making of David Cameron's Tory party.
The countdown to the next election is truly under way - and childcare is right at the top of the policy agenda (see News, page 4, and Beatrix Campbell, page 9). Last week saw unprecedented activity...