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Kirsty holds an early years degree and has worked for the Kids Planet group since 2016. Apprentice...
Kirsty holds an early years degree and has worked for the Kids Planet group since 2016. Apprentice...
Early years training provider Realise has committed to training more than 10,000 apprentices over...
There remains considerable work to do to improve the quality and effectiveness of T-level courses...
Five nursery groups have been recognised by the Government for their ‘outstanding’ commitment to...
National early years training provider Realise has increased its offering with the acquisition of an...
The new management-tier Level 5 and proposed Level 6 apprenticeships have been broadly well-received...
What are the best training options for those wishing to enter the early years sector, and for...
More than 500 early years staff embarked upon the newly-created Level 5 early years apprenticeship...
Lawton, who is managing director of Our Monkey Club, was one of a number of people in the sector...
Fennies nursery group has launched its own training academy, offering CPD courses and a scheme for...
The apprentice levy can now support early years leaders with an enriched Level 5 and Level 7...
Busy Bees has launched its biggest ever recruitment drive as it looks to take on 700 new apprentices...
The Government is introducing new flexi-job apprenticeships so learners so can ‘earn while they...
The Department for Education (DfE) has been slammed for missing the Government’s own target for...
Karen Hart looks at the early years training and qualifications landscape, from the review of Level...
Innovative qualifications are needed to help the early years sector adapt to the changes brought...
The new Level 5 apprenticeship has attracted a lot of interest. Charlotte Goddard finds out all...
Busy Bees Education and Training, part of the Busy Bees group, is now delivering the Level 5 Early...
The number of young people starting apprenticeships has fallen far below pre-pandemic levels,...
We need to make the most of apprenticeship schemes and training programmes to recruit and retain...
Early years Level 3 and T-Level training was already in flux. How has Covid affected their delivery,...
While recruiting Level 3-qualified staff has been an issue for several years, settings have told...
London Early Years Foundation scooped the gong for Health and Well-Being at the Nursery World Awards...
The Level 3 Early Years Educator course is one of 400 free qualifications on offer, in the...
Employers with an annual salary bill of more than £3m are being called on to transfer any unspent...
The Level 3 apprenticeship was finally approved in spring 2019. Charlotte Goddard tracks the first...
A new level 5 apprenticeship standard has been approved for the early years sector – but only meets...
With the launch of the new T-Level qualification in September and new apprenticeship standards under...
Nursery groups have welcomed the Government’s drive to encourage employers to take on apprentices by...
Training providers are facing huge drops in apprentice numbers as settings start to close en masse...
London Early Years Foundation (LEYF) is launching a male-only cohort of apprenticeships, to...
As of January 2020, the digital apprenticeship service has been available to small employers that...
Findings from a survey of 1,000 Mumsnet users with children aged 13-18 reveal that more than 60 per...
A tug of war is taking place over whether the Level 5 apprenticeship standard should contain a...
A trailblazer group which is pushing to get a foundation degree included in a Level 5 apprenticeship...
Hannah Crown and Katy Morton speak to the chair of the education and childcare route panel, Mary...
A panel which approves apprenticeship standards for the childcare sector has appointed a leading...
Since the end of the Level 3 apprenticeship standard impasse, more apprenticeships are in...
The Government will spend more than £10,000 on each childcare T- level in a bid to boost the numbers...
The sector’s first-ever Early Years Educator apprenticeship standard, at Level 3, has finally...
After five years of delays, the new Level 3 early years apprenticeship standard is finally here. So...
T-levels – the Level 3 programmes of study that will come in from 2020 – look set to replace the...
The early years trailblazer group is now in its third incarnation, and is busy devising...
Will the new T-levels be a bed of roses or a bumpy road? Hannah Crown gives the lowdown on the new...
The DfE has confirmed that the early years T-Level will provide students with a licence to practice...
Four years after the first employer ‘trailblazer’ group was formed, the new Level 3 apprenticeship...
An online course helped manager Carol Billingham know what to expect when employing apprentices. By...
The Skills Plan marks a huge reform of vocational education. What is it, and why does it matter for...
What the ‘20 per cent off-the-job training’ rule means exactly, and how it can be delivered, have...