Identifying social and educational policies to tackle educational inequality among children will be the focus of a two-year project by the Pre-school Learning Alliance and 13 European research...
Funding for the free early years entitlement for nurseries rose by only 11 pence an hour last year, with local authorities failing to plug the shortfall, claim market analysts Laing & Buisson in their...
A major report by the Sutton Trust claims that 1,000 Sure Start children’s centres have closed since 2009 - twice as many as Government figures show.
A commitment to raising the number of early years and childcare workers who hold qualifications is among the Scottish Executive's spending plans for the next three years, presented to the Scottish...
Scotland's population is projected to fall below five million in 2009 in demographic figures released last week by the Registrar General for Scotland. By 2027 the proportion of children under 16 will...
More staff will be enabled to gain formal childcare qualifications with 12m in funding from the Scottish Executive. The Executive has set a target for qualified childcare staff of 85 per cent of the...
Nominations are invited for Scholastic UK and La Jolie Ronde's Primary Language Teacher Award 2009.
Nominations are being invited for the 2009 Teaching Awards, sponsored by the DCSF.