I fully support the Government's acknowledgement of the importance of early years education and its ambitious plans to have a graduate leading every nursery setting by 2015.
However, as a graduate currently managing a London nursery, I am writing to warn that the measures being taken to facilitate this will, in fact, have the disastrous opposite effect of persuading graduates like me that their qualifications are wasted in working with such young children.
I have been told that in order for my nursery to qualify for the graduate recruitment fund, I need to go back to college to gain Early Years Professional Status. I already have a degree from Cambridge and a Post Graduate Certificate of Education, specialising in early years.
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