16 October 2003
(Photograph) - Judges of the Heinemann Childcare
Student of the Year Award toasted this year's winner, Josephine London
(centre), at a ceremony held at the Early Years and Primary Teaching...
16 October 2003
The cost of childcare and bad experiences at school
deter parents from signing up to family learning courses, research by the
Institute of Education has found. The report Family Learning:...
16 October 2003
Four-year-old Kristopher Young and friends have a go
with ICT at Scaraway Nursery in Glasgow A £3m package to help early years
professionals with using computers in a pre-school environment...
16 October 2003
The Scottish Executive is failing to give enough
emphasis to the early years when tackling the problem of antisocial behaviour
in young people, according to both a leading children's charity...
16 October 2003
Early Education's new development officer for Scotland
is Dorothy Petrie. She has more than 20 years' experience as a nursery and
primary school teacher and has worked for the charity...
16 October 2003
Nursery nurses in Scotland look set to continue their
industrial action well into the winter as views on both sides of the dispute
become more entrenched. Last week Unison members...
16 October 2003
(Photograph) - Nicole Woods of the Scottish Independent
Nurseries Association joined in the fun at SINA's celebration of Celtic
storytelling held at the Hilton hotel in Edinburgh on 10 October....
16 October 2003
Almost one in 12 six-year-old children in the UK is
obese and the problem is increasing, research published last week by the Health
Development Agency has found. The HDA report,...
16 October 2003
* Children joined GMTV presenters Eamonn Holmes and
Fiona Phillips (right) to promote the next Chatterbox Challenge to raise funds
for ICAN, the charity for children with speech and language...
16 October 2003
The quality of school meals in England and Wales is
often no better than 'muck off a truck', it was claimed last week. The claim
was made by Peter Melchett,...
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