8 November 2001
Aleading early years academic is seeking Nursery World
readers' views on care for the under-threes to contribute to a Government
project developing a framework for effective practice with very young...
8 November 2001
Tests at age seven are to be dropped for children in
Wales, education minister Jane Davidson revealed last week. She told the
Society of Education Officers' conference in Llandrindod Wells...
8 November 2001
Registered childminders from across England and Wales
are meeting in Blackpool on 17 and 18 November for the National Childminding
Association's annual conference and AGM. Among the speakers will be...
8 November 2001
Childcare campaigners are due to go to Westminster
today (Thursday) to meet MPs and voice their concerns about further delays to
the start of the Criminal Records Bureau, which is...
8 November 2001
A £16m contract to supply almost 600 primary
schools in Northern Ireland with computers under the Province's Classroom 2000
initiative was announced last week by education minister Martin McGuinness.
Eighty...
8 November 2001
Areas of rural isolation are set to benefit in the
latest round of lottery funding for childcare places. The grants from the New
Opportunities Fund (NOF), the National Lottery distributor,...
8 November 2001
Experiencing two cases of meningitis at nursery has
inspired a nursery chain to embark on a fundraising initiative which has so far
collected more than £2,000 for a meningitis charity....
8 November 2001
(Photograph) - Six-year-olds Lewis Miller (left) and
Andrew Donnelly had fun with BBC children's presenter Adrian Dickson when they
visited the Cystic Fibrosis Trust stand at the Totalfun toy exhibition...
8 November 2001
Thousands of new playworkers are needed to staff the
boom in out-of-school clubs, but they will have to be the right people, says
Anne Wiltsher What is the difference between...
8 November 2001
* Out-of-school clubs in England have doubled in four
years. * In 1997 there were 3,500 clubs; today there are 7,000 clubs, offering
240,000 places.
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