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To the point: Trapped in mini-jobs

Monday, November 18, 2013

| Nursery World

Will Universal credit deliver on its central claim – to make work pay not just in the first hour but for every subsequent hour?

We are under assault

Opinion

Friday, June 28, 2013

| Nursery World

Ofsted's Michael Wilshaw has betrayed a fundamental ignorance of both early years and the noxious side effects of a testing culture, argues Dr Richard House

Editor's view - The day after

Opinion

Monday, May 18, 2015

| Nursery World

The first few days after an election feel a bit like waking up with a hangover after a raucous party - exhausted, with a headache, and counting the casualties.

A world-class system

Opinion

Monday, March 9, 2015

| Nursery World

We all know how important a child's first years are, but increasingly research is showing the full impact of those early experiences on our education and later lives.

Looking ahead to the new framework

Opinion

Friday, March 27, 2015

| Nursery World

Ofsted director of early years Nick Hudson explains the implications of the common inspection framework, which launches in September

Find the childcare promises

Opinion

Tuesday, May 9, 2017

| Nursery World

Ahead of the general election, Liz Bayram of PACEY calls on the political parties to commit to providing high-quality childcare.

To the point: We must aim high

Opinion

Friday, July 6, 2012

| Nursery World

'Narrowing the gap' has been a central focus of investment in early years, aimed at decreasing the divide in life chances between those children who are the haves and have-nots.

Our multilingual future

Opinion

Monday, June 12, 2017

| Nursery World

Is Brexit a threat, a challenge or an opportunity for the future of those nurseries fostering bilingual or plurilingual education in England?

Editor's view - A year of change and challenge

Opinion

Monday, January 11, 2016

| Nursery World

Another new year begins – and one that is certain to be critical for the future of the early years sector in many ways.

It's not 'free', it's funded!

Opinion

Tuesday, February 14, 2017

| Nursery World

The Government needs to come clean to parents that 30 hours funding will force providers to charge for 'extra' services, says Neil Leitch, chief executive of Pre-school Learning Alliance

Editor’s view - Ins and outs

Opinion

Monday, June 27, 2016

| Nursery World

Do we face yet more delays in getting on with childcare policy?, asks Liz Roberts

PACEY celebrates its 40th anniversary

Opinion

Monday, November 27, 2017

| Nursery World

40 years after a group of childminders first got together to set up an organisation to support registered childminding, current chief executive Liz Bayram reflects

"It doesn't take GCSEs..."

Opinion

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

| Nursery World

"It doesn't take GCSE's or anything else to change nappies, just common sense" - comments on the Nutbrown Review. Julian Grenier gives his response on his latest blog

Feeling overwhelmed

Opinion

Monday, November 12, 2018

| Nursery World

Too many statutory requirements mean we are busy demonstrating compliance rather than getting on with our real job

Ins and outs of IELS

Opinion

Monday, February 19, 2018

| Nursery World

Long-awaited details of 'Baby PISA' have not been met with much acclaim, says Liz Roberts

Editor’s view - One to treasure

Opinion

Wednesday, March 28, 2018

| Nursery World

The Report on Childcare released last week by the Treasury Committee was almost breathtaking in the scope and intensity of its criticism of Government childcare policies.

Separated families - let's stop thinking in terms of stereotypes

Opinion

Thursday, November 22, 2012

| Nursery World

Nick Woodall of the Centre for Separated Families explains how proposed legislation could transform the way society views lone parenting, placing a new emphasis on shared parenting after divorce or separation

How one children's centre took on Thatcher over gay rights

Opinion

Wednesday, May 23, 2018

| Nursery World

In the late Eighties, Sheffield Children’s Centre took the Thatcher Government to court over Section 28, which banned the promotion of homosexuality in schools. Chrissy Meleady, who led the fight, tells the story 30 years on

Editor’s view - A puzzling situation

Opinion

Monday, November 25, 2019

| Nursery World

As the election draws near, policy on funding, training and revisions to the EYFS don’t make much sense

To the point: Denmark points the way

Opinion

Friday, November 9, 2012

| Nursery World

Whenever I visit a Nordic country, I'm mistaken for a native. I probably have some Viking blood in my ancestral line. That might explain why I've always admired the Nordic countries. More likely, they are admirable because they get so much right, not least their world-class early-years education and childcare systems.