9 May 2001
Music comes alive for nursery children when a member of a national orchestra is calling the tune. Joyce Reid sees the effects of a session in the universal language
9 May 2001
Members of the public sector union Unison will take to the streets in Glasgow on 19 May as they launch a campaign to increase and standardise the pay of nursery...
9 May 2001
If parents cannot read or write, how can they support their children's learning? Judith Napier sees what's being done
8 August 2001
The best way to encourage under-threes to enjoy art is to keep your hands out of it, says Jennie Lindon
8 August 2001
How are the new LSCs shaping up? Childcare training providers tell Mary Evans how they see their position
8 August 2001
Dyslexia is sometimes hard to diagnose and impossible to cure, but early years practitioners can do much to boost children's learning, as Maggie Jones explains
8 August 2001
Childcarers should see fears from a child's perpective in order to undersand and dispel them, writes John Bolton...
8 August 2001
It is what happens at home that really affects the life chances of under-fives, but policy-makers have tended to consider this a private matter. Should it remain so? Anne Wiltsher...
8 August 2001
Two former childminders have been awarded £7,000 by the Local Government Ombudsman following a complaint about their treatment at the hands of their local council.
8 August 2001
Classroom assistants in England and Wales are increasingly taking on a teaching role, yet many earn less than a third of a teacher's salary, according to new research.