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Friday, March 1, 2013

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Nursery World is running a conference, 'Two-Year-Olds: Policy and Practice' on 19 April to provide expert advice and debate on provision for this age group.

Pre-School Learning Alliance to open its doors to childminders

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Tuesday, November 13, 2012

| Nursery World

The Pre-School Learning Alliance is to offer childminders a bespoke membership package from early next year, following the National Childminding Association's bid to attract a wider membership under a new name.

EYPs warn morale will fall if they are forced to re-train

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Wednesday, October 31, 2012

| Nursery World

Representatives for Early Years Professionals met with Department for Education officials yesterday to voice their concerns about replacing EYPs with specialist early years teachers.

EYPS and the Nutbrown Review: Threat or opportunity?

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Friday, August 3, 2012

| Nursery World

Cathy Nutbrown's recommendations for EYPS in her recent review of qualifications have fuelled heated debate. Karen Faux finds out why opinion is so divided and what it could mean for the status.

Professor Nutbrown answers your questions

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Wednesday, July 11, 2012

| Nursery World

We had a huge response to Professor Cathy Nutbrown's request for Nursery World readers to send her questions and comments about her review, Foundations for Quality.

Nutbrown Review: Final report maps way ahead for quality early years workforce

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Monday, June 18, 2012

| Nursery World

A new early years teaching qualification, minimum standards for maths and English, and clear job titles and roles, are among some of the 19 recommendations made by Professor Cathy Nutbrown.

Childcare courses confuse students on Level 3 status

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Friday, April 13, 2012

| Nursery World

Some students studying distance learning courses in childcare believing that they will lead to full Level 3 qualifications, are discovering the courses are not considered as full and relevant qualifications by the Department for Education.

Revised Early Years Foundation Stage: new framework is out

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Tuesday, March 27, 2012

| Nursery World

The hotly anticipated revised Early Years Foundation Stage has been published by the Department for Education.

CWDC gets ready to close its doors

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Wednesday, March 21, 2012

| Nursery World

On 31 March the Children's Workforce Development Council will close and the DfE's Teaching Agency will continue its work with early years.

Nutbrown Review: Training providers 'not up to scratch', says NDNA

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Monday, January 30, 2012

| Nursery World

Training providers should be more tightly controlled, the National Day Nurseries Association has said in its response to the Government's review on early years qualifications, amid concerns that courses are not preparing childcare students for working in nurseries.

Early years qualifications: put your questions to Cathy Nutbrown

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Thursday, January 12, 2012

| Nursery World

Do you want to bring back the NNEB? Are graduate leaders the way to go? Professor Cathy Nutbrown is giving Nursery World readers an exclusive opportunity to have your questions answered

Private nurseries fear they will go unheard in Nutbrown qualifications review

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Monday, November 28, 2011

| Nursery World

The National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA) has expressed concern that the views of private day nurseries may not be taken into account in the Government's review of early education and childcare qualifications.

Nutbrown Review - last chance to sign up for free consultation event

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Monday, November 28, 2011

| Nursery World

Professor Cathy Nutbrown is holding one-day events across the country to give the early years and childcare workforce the chance to contribute to the qualifications review.

Conferences addresses changes to Ofsted inspection framework

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Monday, November 14, 2011

| Nursery World

'Inspection and Regulation in the Early Years: Building the Strongest Foundation' (Neil Stewart Associates, 18 January) is designed to help the sector get up to speed with changes to the inspections framework which will be timed to coincide with the introduction of the revised EYFS next September.

Nutbrown Review gives qualifications stay of execution

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Wednesday, November 9, 2011

| Nursery World

Plans to rationalise the sector's 361 early years qualifications have been put on hold by the Children's Workforce Development Council in the light of the Nutbrown Review .

Plans and providers unveiled for new EYP programme

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Monday, October 17, 2011

| Nursery World

The Children's Workforce Development Council is funding a total of 7,200 places on the new Early Years Professional Status programme between 2012 and 2015, with expectations of a large additional number of self-funded candidates across the programme's lifetime.

CWDC confirms 1,500 funded places for next intake of EYPs

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Friday, September 9, 2011

| Nursery World

Up to 1,500 funded places will be available for early years practitioners to train on the new Early Years Professional programme, which starts in January.

Parents want men in nurseries but male school leavers 'not interested' in childcare

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Tuesday, July 26, 2011

| Nursery World

New research has found that while the majority of parents are in favour of men working in nurseries, most male students would not consider childcare as a career.

Lords bid to save Montessori and Steiner qualifications in Education Bill

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Thursday, July 7, 2011

| Nursery World

Amendments to the Education Bill proposed by the House of Lords are seeking to preserve the accreditation of Montessori and Steiner qualifications and to stipulate minimum requirements for nursery staff responsible for the care of children aged two and above.

Gove's action plan to attract more outstanding teachers

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Tuesday, June 28, 2011

| Nursery World

Training bursaries of up to 9,000 will be made available for all for top graduates applying to become primary school teachers, in plans to attract the best trainees to choose teaching as a career.

Nursery chains slam 'inadequate' Children and Young People's Workforce diploma

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Monday, June 27, 2011

| Nursery World

Dissent is growing among major nursery providers over inadequacies in the content of the new Level 3 Diploma for the Children and Young People's Workforce.

New Code of Practice to safeguard Montessori ethos

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Tuesday, June 21, 2011

| Nursery World

Montessori settings will be expected to sign up to a new Code of Practice to endorse their professionalism and the quality of their early years provision.

Question mark over future of EYPs

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Friday, June 10, 2011

| Nursery World

Children's minister Sarah Teather cast doubt on the future of Early Years Professional status in her ministerial address to delegates at the National Day Nursery Association's annual conference.

EYPS providers miss chance to bid for new course contract

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Tuesday, May 24, 2011

| Nursery World

More than 20 current Early Years Professional Status (EYPS) providers will be unable to bid to run the course from 2012 under the tendering process for the new three-year contract.

Analysis: Level three diploma for the children and young people's workforce - Fit for purpose?

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Tuesday, May 17, 2011

| Nursery World

No sooner has the new diploma been launched as the single qualification for the workforce than it is being called into doubt. Karen Faux hears why

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Sign up for Nursery World's conference on two-year-olds

Pre-School Learning Alliance to open its doors to childminders

EYPs warn morale will fall if they are forced to re-train

EYPS and the Nutbrown Review: Threat or opportunity?

Professor Nutbrown answers your questions

Nutbrown Review: Final report maps way ahead for quality early years workforce

Childcare courses confuse students on Level 3 status

Revised Early Years Foundation Stage: new framework is out

CWDC gets ready to close its doors

Nutbrown Review: Training providers 'not up to scratch', says NDNA

Early years qualifications: put your questions to Cathy Nutbrown

Private nurseries fear they will go unheard in Nutbrown qualifications review

Nutbrown Review - last chance to sign up for free consultation event

Conferences addresses changes to Ofsted inspection framework

Nutbrown Review gives qualifications stay of execution

Plans and providers unveiled for new EYP programme

CWDC confirms 1,500 funded places for next intake of EYPs

Parents want men in nurseries but male school leavers 'not interested' in childcare

Lords bid to save Montessori and Steiner qualifications in Education Bill

Gove's action plan to attract more outstanding teachers

Nursery chains slam 'inadequate' Children and Young People's Workforce diploma

New Code of Practice to safeguard Montessori ethos

Question mark over future of EYPs

EYPS providers miss chance to bid for new course contract

Analysis: Level three diploma for the children and young people's workforce - Fit for purpose?

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