Letters: Training dumb-down

Nursery World, 27 November 2007

Letter of the week

I agree with many of Sian Nisbett's points in 'In my view' (15 November). I have been expecting this training option to happen for quite some time now, under this hypocritical current childcare strategy that the Government advisors have come up with. How can we be raising the qualifications of our current workforce by pressuring our already experienced staff (some of whom have been in the childcare/early education sector for more than 20 years), to undertake degrees and keep on upgrading their qualifications, if we are going to have 14-year-olds 'working' alongside them. I find the...

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