13 November 2008
Children from low-income backgrounds who performed well in tests at age two are, by the age of six or seven, overtaken by previously less-able children from better-off families. This trend...
9 October 2008
The founder of the world's largest childcare company, ABC Learning Centres, stepped down as its chief executive last week.
14 August 2008
More than half of adults in the UK think that family life will suffer if a woman goes to work, suggesting that support for gender equality is diminishing, new research...
13 November 2008
Ruth Pimentel, the national director responsible for the Early Years Foundation Stage, has resigned.
2 October 2008
More social stigma attaches to absent mothers than fathers, but this only makes it more difficult for the children, says Judith Napier.
28 August 2008
See who's saying what at www.nurseryworld.co.uk.
5 November 2008
The 'poor relations' of the education workforce finally have their own negotiating team to look after their interests, but there is much work to be done first. Simon Vevers reports.
31 July 2008
Flexible working arrangements are not accessible to the parents who need them most, such as lone or low-paid mothers, new research has found.