14 June 2001
The report into the UK's early childhood education and
care system by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (see
News, page 4) has been ready for publication since February....
14 June 2001
New Labour's early years policies in its first four
years of Government have been weighed up and found wanting in parts in a report
published this week by the Organisation...
14 June 2001
(Photograph) - Iain Howie from Haddington Infant
School, East Lothian, felt extra-special when the school won this year's
Scottish Schools Ethos Award. Haddington, with 400 pupils from nursery to P3,...
14 June 2001
The new Government should appoint a Children's Rights
Commissioner for England to act as an independent champion for all children,
according to a report by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. In...
14 June 2001
The Liberal Democrats beat both Labour and the
Conservatives by a substantial margin in an internet poll conducted by Nursery
World during the general election campaign. Visitors to our website...
14 June 2001
Four council nurseries in Ealing, London, closed for a
day last week when nursery workers held a one-day strike, organised by Unison
in support of a fair pay and grading...
14 June 2001
Shivani Chotai was inadvertently left off the list of
contributors to the eight-page pull-out section 'All about ... Speech and
language' in last week's Nursery World. This was due to...
14 June 2001
'As a contributor to the OECD report on early education
and care I examined child poverty and quality of services to young children.
The UK's record is shameful by comparison...