The Government’s multi-million pound catch-up programme risks failing pupils who need it the most, leaving them facing an ‘epidemic of educational inequality’, a report from the education select...
A cohesive conceptual framework for education in the broadest sense of the word has a lot to offer the UK. Janet Boddy and Claire Cameron explain The recent DfES Children's Workforce strategy document...
The SSTEW scale has been developed to assess the quality of early childhood education and care. Denise Kingston and Professor Iram Siraj of the Institute of Education explain.
There are benefits to embracing a creativity focused on process rather than result. Nicole Weinstein offers a guide
Many nurseries are finding that filming staff with children and playing the footage to them and their colleagues helps to improve practice. Annette Rawstrone speaks to some of them
The campaign to boost the training of early years practitioners is gaining momentum and settings are having to rise to the challenge of auditing staff qualifications. Mary Evans reports.
Could the trends in earnings and conditions for nannies reflect prospects for the general UK economy? Asa Nilsdotter of Nannytax adds up the figures and hears the forecast.
What does the CWDC aim to achieve with its new level 3 qualification and what does the sector think of it? Karen Faux takes a closer look.
A new DfE report on providers’ finances shows that the hourly fee charged by settings for three- and four-year-old places is on average 58p higher than what they receive in funding.
Published to critical acclaim, the book New Kinds of Smart argues that intelligence is expandable. Here, co-author Professor Bill Lucas considers the opportunities this new thinking presents for early...