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Reports evidence from a study in which children's attention to shape in a task of artificial noun learning was correlated with a rate shift in noun acquisitions. Eight children (median age 17 months)...
(Photograph) - Children's author Sue Nicholls leads three- to five-year-olds through activities from The Sound Foundation Handbook at the Croydon Clocktower in Surrey. The book for Foundation Stage...
Nearly 5,000 nursery nurses across Scotland have voted to take industrial action for a review of their pay. The ballot of nursery nurse members of public services union Unison was carried out between...
A Government survey on smoking has found a high level of awareness about the effects of passive smoking. Ninety per cent of respondents to the survey said they thought a child's risk of getting a...
I run a small nursery with my daughter and we employ six full-time members of staff and one part-time to cover holidays and sickness. While I agree with Donna Barlow's comments in her letter...
(Photograph) - The Royal Society of Arts is urging schools nationwide to get ready, steady and cook during Focus on Food week, 25 to 29 June. The Focus on Food campaign aims to encourage children of...
Only 25 per cent of primary school children are allowed to travel home from school alone and many can't play and travel in their local area without adult supervision, causing an adverse effect to...
Much has changed for the better since Nursery Worldwas first published nearly 100 years ago, but there is lots still to achieve
I was heartened to read in the feature 'Men wanted' (24 May) that the Government hopes to get more young men interested in working in childcare. I wish them luck, because this male childcarer is...
Further to the letter by Maxine Burrows (25 July), the police checks should be individual to each setting, otherwise how can this be classed as a 'check'? Surely when we take on staff a police check...