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The 6,000 visitors to this year's Early Years and Primary Teaching Exhibition found there was plenty to see, do, hear and buy, says Nicole Curnow Queues stretched along the outside...

How will newly-appointed Foundation Stage advisors support early years practitioners? Catherine Gaunt talks to the woman at the top Last month a group of national early years experts took up...

Janet Ackers Janet Ackers' previous role was as centre leader for early years and childhood studies at the Institute of Education at Manchester Metropolitan University and she was part of...

I firmly believe the playwork and early years qualifications should be integrated, and that both sectors would greatly benefit if they were. I appreciate that play values are strongly held...

Hilton Church Playgroup has been providing a balanced pre-school education for the village for nearly 40 years, providing this service when no alternatives were available. But we are now faced...

Ofsted's role in the inspection of early years care and education is quite recent, yet already practitioners have raised concerns about it. Although concerns have been expressed about school inspections,...

This summer represents a landmark at Godalming College, as we celebrate the tenth anniversary of the introduction of childcare and education courses to the sixth-form college's syllabus. Celebration organisers are...

I'm a television producer who is looking for families with au pairs or nannies to take part in a new series of the BAFTA award-winning Channel 4 programme, 'Wife Swap'....

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