* International links are valuable because they help practitioners to reflect on their own values, assumptions and ways of looking at children. This point is vividly made by a Swedish practitioner,...
As more children are absorbed into school nurseries and reception classes, nurseries are focusing on younger age groups, some taking infants as young as six weeks old. What is it like to actually work...
Perhaps the best known and best loved of all Jacqueline Wilson's characters is Tracey Beaker and now there is a character doll from Golden Bear. Tracey Beaker comes as a 28cm high, soft, poseable doll...
The head of a private school has been fined 20,000 for breaching health and safety laws following the death of a three-year-old boy in the school playground.
'Everyone is becoming neurotic about education. I have watched this grow out of the league tables. We see exam results used to measure political success.' Judith Gillespie, Scottish Parent Teacher...
'Children, though they may still be wanted by so many, are suddenly out of their price range' Cristina Odone, on a survey that calculated that it costs parents 164,000 to bring up a child, the...
Jubilee Day Nursery and Jubilee Gems Nursery in Padworth, West Berkshire celebrated over 100 children moving on to primary school with a graduation ceremony that included a picnic and fun day with a...
Three-quarters of parents would welcome the return of the ‘nit nurse’, according to a new survey.
Nursery worker Laura Pettitt has been cleared of charges that she shook, dropped and force-fed babies in her care.
Let children sing and recite their way to understanding what they can do with numbers, says Denise Bailey, through activities with simple songs and rhymes Children's understanding of numbers, counting...