9 September 2004
The lucky winnner of a £945 nursery gym in the
Nursery World and Community Playthings competition is Liz Cowan, manager of
Nutwood Nursery in Staffordshire. More than 400 people entered...
9 September 2004
In the feature 'Going for gold' (2 September), Helen
Bishop is the deputy head of care and early years education at Hertford
Regional College in Ware, not Oxford, as stated....
9 September 2004
Nord Anglia Education, the UK's largest nursery chain
with more than 10,200 places, announced last week that it had completed the
reorganisation of its nursery division several months ahead of...
9 September 2004
The Scottish Independent Nurseries Association is
calling for a national quality assurance scheme for all early years settings in
Scotland to reassure parents in the wake of a spate of...
9 September 2004
'Everyone is becoming neurotic about education. I have
watched this grow out of the league tables. We see exam results used to measure
political success.' Judith Gillespie, Scottish Parent Teacher...
9 September 2004
The imminent rise in the national minimum wage from
£4.50 to £4.85 an hour is squeezing the profit margins of some
smaller nursery chains, prompting them to increase fees. Although...
9 September 2004
Childcare was in the spotlight last week for the second
time in a month upon the publication of Ofsted's Early Years report, following
hot on the heels of the BBC...
9 September 2004
Good quality joined-up services have won praise from
children's minister Margaret Hodge for Islington council in London, after
Archway Early Years Centre and Margaret McMillan Nursery School were named as...
9 September 2004
1 October Autistic spectrum disorders
9 September 2004
The Government is to introduce a common core of shared
skills and knowledge in a bid to build a better and more competent childcare
workforce. How this might work, and...
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