Nursery schools under new scrutiny

By Laura Marcus, Nursery World, 24 July 2008

The status and role of maintained nursery schools is to be investigated in a new research project managed by Early Education.

All nursery school head teachers have received questionnaires from the DCSF-funded project, which will be analysed for a final report next April. Consultants Pauline Trudell and Barbara Riddell are running the project. Ms Trudell estimates that there are around 400 nursery schools left in the UK, compared with around 500 in 1997. She said, 'It's not a campaign against closures - it's trying to find out what happened to nursery schools and how we look at their resources, skills and expertise. We're really looking at...

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