The excitement is building as we unveil the shortlist for the Nursery World Awards 2012 (in alphabetical order).
Practitioners working with babies feel isolated, neglected and less valued than other staff in the nursery, a three-year long study into baby rooms has concluded, highlighting a need for targeted...
World leaders are being called on to invest more in the early years as new research shows less than 2 per cent of the global aid budget goes to pre-primary education.
Problems with complaint-driven Ofsted inspections stymied providers’ plans to sell their settings or acquire new ones in what was otherwise a positive 2013 for the nursery sector, according to a...
What a city lost in underused nurseries and schools may have been more than gained back in a new centre, as Melanie Defries discovers.
The Scottish Executive has ruled out putting nanny agencies and nannies under the same regulatory body as other early years education and childcare services, despite the concerns expressed by a number...
Along-running dispute between term-time school staff in Northern Ireland and the Province's five Education and Library Boards looks set to end following a management offer put forward last week, with...
During her second month Jasmine began to vocalise when making eye contact with her carers and when focusing on a particular toy. Vertical stripes (such as the folds in curtains) held her attention for...
Mutually beneficial relationships between grandchildren and their grandparents need to be rekindled as the nation emerges from lockdown, research has highlighted.
Ten years on from newborn screening, new research shows that deaf babies and toddlers still struggle to get the right help in their pre-school years.