'The most profound thing facing the new education minister isn't national tests or attainment levels or the jiggery pokery of justifying the PFI involvement in schools; it's the crisis caused by...
'What is remarkable is the extent of support for nursery nurses across whole communities, including parents. In not resolving this dispute, elected members in COSLA are becoming increasingly isolated...
'The more that agencies join up to provide the services to meet the various needs of families with young children, the more those needs can be met in a seamless way and we can ensure that children are...
'At face value, the improvement in SATs is an amazing rise in standards. When you see something like that you have to pause for a minute and say, is it real or not?' Professor Peter Tymms of Durham...
'I think you can pretty much say goodbye to cucumbers. They didn't go down well.' Alistair Farquhar, head of educational resource services at Moray Council, on the mixed reaction to introducing...
'Children learn the most in the first three years of their lives, so to catch them between two-and-a-half and three gets them in their best learning period.' Victoria Lynne, a former nursery school...
* A campaign to set up out-of-school provision for 11- to 16-year-olds, managed by the Kids' Clubs Network, has reported that it now has more than 300 clubs in development. Clubs belonging to the Make...
The experience of starting school could be made less daunting with the help of a new interactive website with stories, games and information to help parents and children prepare for the first few...
Children and monsters go out of their way to prove they know better in the latest books reviewed by Alison Boyle You Do!