Assessment and progress data matter, but they must not detract from the real purpose of teaching, while teachers should be better trained to deliver the ethos of the EYFS, explains Dr Julian Grenier
The second phase of a UK-wide consultation on proposals to revise the values and assumptions that inform playwork training has been launched by Play Wales, the national organisation for play in Wales....
Provision for autisticchildren is 'shocking and appalling', said children's commissioner Al Aynsley-Green after meeting children and parents from the National Autistic Society. The charity estimates...
Early years practitioners can gain an international angle on their field at the 'Starting Strong' conference at the Institute of Education, London, on 23 January. Speaker John Bennett, co-author of...
As a registered childminder, I think 2003 is too late for the Government to hold a review on the new national standards for daycare and childminding in England. Childminders did not ask for the right...
(Photograph) - Photo: ATOM Primary 1 pupil Tanveer Ahmed from Glendale Primary School in Glasgow listens to the sound of the sea while classmate Peter Fox examines a crab at a new exhibition at the...
Guidance on the new legal requirement for children with special educational needs to be included in mainstream education has been published by the ScottishExecutive. The new requirement, introduced as...
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