16 September 2004
The role of employers in supporting and providing for
their staff's childcare needs will be a major issue in the next few years. Last
week's conference by the London Development...
16 September 2004
The development of schools as the hub of the community
is fast becoming a key strand of the strategy to deliver integrated services to
children and families in isolated rural...
16 September 2004
(Photograph) - Giants, pixies, imps and faeries
provided an exciting theme for nursery practitioners at 'Faeries and Scaries',
a one-day conference in Glasgow. Practitioners took part in six hands-on
workshops...
16 September 2004
Not only will the survivors of the Beslan massacre be
traumatised, but children elsewhere may be distressed by the news. Andrea
Clifford-Poston offers advice for understanding and responding to them...
16 September 2004
The leading theories about how young children acquire
and develop language, and how early years workers can use them, are outlined by
Tricia David Young children become amazingly proficient communicators...
16 September 2004
'This is baby farming. Why not hand babies over at
birth and have done with them, as our forebears used to do? Why not hang them
up by the swaddling...
16 September 2004
Private providers remain apprehensive about their
future role in Government initiatives despite ministerial reassurances that
they will have a part to play. Speaking at a conference last week about the...
16 September 2004
(Photograph) - Crathes Castle played host to a mini
Highland Games at which children aged three to 12 took part in traditional and
not-so-traditional challenges, such as a tug of...
16 September 2004
Schools in Scotland are being invited to take part in a
new project, Where Schools Meet Streets, run by school grounds charity Grounds
for Learning. The project aims to transform...
16 September 2004
Non-fiction books that enhance the teaching and
learning curriculum for Scotland's schools could win £500 in a
competition for educational publishers organised by the Saltire Society and the
Times Educational...