Celebrating diversity is a theme running through this week's Nursery World. We report from the World Forum on Early Care and Education held in New Zealand last week, where delegates from more than 50...
Ofsted's consultation on its plans for revamping childcare inspections was rather brief, given the importance of the changes, but there was a great deal of agreement that the main proposals were on...
Some interesting issues are raised by the guidance on developing children's centres which has just been published by the Sure Start unit (see News, page 4). Not least is the expectation that more than...
The former nursery nurses from Newcastle who have just been awarded substantial libel damages have been living through what must be every childcare worker's worst nightmare - to be branded a child...
Ofsted's new report into children's experiences of education at age six in England, Denmark and Finland is bound to stir up the debate about school starting age once more (see News, page 4). Sure...
Page references for Curriculum guidance for the foundation stage Principle
As soon as any kind of assessment is formalised into a league table, it will be seized upon and interpreted in a misguided manner. Just look at what has happened with SATs. So it is with the 2005...
Unease is growing over some of the proposals in the Childcare Bill, with early years and childcare professionals raising their voices at several recent events (see News, page 4). There has been such a...
In this final article, Karen John of the Pen Green Research Base focuses on the practicalities of introducing and implementing effective supervision within an organisation.
It seems that getting the language of early years education and childcare right is a struggle for Government speech writers. Take education secretary Ruth Kelly's words to the IPPR last week (see...