Involving parents in their children's learning is the single most important factor in improving outcomes for children in less advantaged families. Kate Hayward, assistant director of Pen Green...
Leading experts from Early Education have some urgent questions about the Government's proposals for reform.
* About 500 children in Northern Ireland have given the Government their views on a better future for the Province. Pre-school and primary school children responded to a consultation by using a...
The disadvantage gap has now stopped closing in the early years, and there is a real risk any progress made over recent years to eradicate it could be undone, warns a new report.
Concerns about wide variations in the quality of candidates getting NVQs could increase with new funding methods, as Mary Evans reports National Vocational Qualifications were designed to equip the...
Construction block sets are among the essential equipment that any nursery will have, but that doesn't mean they're all alike. Mary Evans hears how early years settings rate a variety of the latest...
This week's columnist Alan Bentley thinks nurseries will be forced to pull out of NEG schemes if top-up fees are banned While almost everyone in the private sector supports the efforts this Government...
* Children at Highdale nursery, Clevedon, will be more conspicuous when they're out on the roads thanks to Avon and Somerset Police Community Trust, who have donated 24 high-visibility waistcoats to...
Liz Truss has this afternoon resigned her position as Prime Minister - just 44 days into the job.