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Friday, March 8, 2013

| Nursery World

Tickets are selling fast for Nursery World's Two-year-Olds: Policy and Practice conference on 19 April, which features a fantastic line-up of early years experts all ready to share their knowledge and experience.

DfE seeks views on new experience-based route qualification for early years practitioners

News

Monday, April 22, 2024

| Nursery World

A consultation on plans to introduce a new experience-based route for unqualified early years practitioners to count in ratios has been launched today.

Work matters - Business Development: Let's keep up the good work on training

Features

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

| Nursery World

Support for training and professional development among the workforce has made a huge difference to the way nurseries operate and the quality they deliver. This must continue under a new Government, says Karen Walker, director of Children's Place nursery chain.

Early years trainer takes Government to court on re-sits

News

Monday, November 3, 2014

| Nursery World

An early years trainer is taking the Government to court over rules which he says mean apprentices will be forced to take ‘completely unnecessary re-sits’ of their GCSEs.

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

News

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.

DfE consults sector on GCSE rules in wake of protest

News

Sunday, November 13, 2016

| Nursery World

The Department for Education has finally responded to vocal concerns from the sector about the need to revise the GCSE rules for Level 3 early years workers, amid the recruitment crisis.

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.

Nursery Management: Apprenticeship Roundup - Slow progress

Features

Monday, March 20, 2017

| Nursery World

The deadlock over GCSEs at Level 3 has set early years apprenticeships back years. Following the Government U-turn and the sacking of the trailblazer group, what now? asks Hannah Crown

Welsh childcare sector 'most fragile in Britain'

News

Tuesday, April 4, 2017

| Nursery World

Nurseries in Wales are struggling to stay afloat due to low funding rates and rising business costs, according to findings from the NDNA’s annual survey.

Minister confirms workforce strategy for next year

News

Friday, December 4, 2015

| Nursery World

Childcare minister Sam Gyimah has confirmed that there will be a workforce strategy established next year.

Link 30 hours to workforce development: PACEY

News

Monday, January 11, 2016

| Nursery World

Ministers should consider restricting the 30-hour offer to those settings that are graded Good or Outstanding, a leading early years organisation argues.

GCSE requirements to be reviewed

News

Friday, July 1, 2016

| Nursery World

Sam Gyimah has promised a review of the GCSE requirements at Level 3.

Workforce Strategy, Part 6: Diversity - Mirror, mirror

Features

Monday, January 8, 2018

| Nursery World

What progress is being made on representation of men in childcare, and what about other groups? asks Charlotte Goddard

"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

Survey highlights 'sector-wide' early years workforce crisis

News

Thursday, December 2, 2021

| Nursery World

More than eight in ten early years settings are struggling to recruit staff and half of them are having to turn away new parents because of staff shortages, sector research suggests.

Nursery Management: Training - Under one roof

Features

Monday, March 21, 2016

| Nursery World

Settings are trying to GCSE-proof future staff via bespoke training. Charlotte Goddard investigates

New Ofsted Inspection Framework: Part 4 - How to achieve strong, responsive leadership

Features

Monday, April 21, 2014

| Nursery World

In the concluding part of her series, Lena Engel examines what it takes to be an effective manager and an inspiring leader.

Level 5 standard in dispute

News

Monday, February 3, 2020

| Nursery World

A tug of war is taking place over whether the Level 5 apprenticeship standard should contain a foundation degree or the standard ‘licence to practice’ at Level 3, Nursery World has learned.

Editor's view - Now we have proof of the benefits Early Years Professionals bring

Features

Monday, August 8, 2011

| Nursery World

The EYFS and Early Years Professional Status are widely acknowledged to have improved practice.

Apprenticeship levy warning to early years sector

News

Thursday, August 25, 2016

| Nursery World

Settings are urged to air their views in the Government’s apprenticeship levy consultation after a leading training provider warned that ‘catastrophic’ funding cuts are in store.

Capita scraps Strategies' replacement amid concerns over budgets

News

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

| Nursery World

Edsight, the education consultancy set up by Capita to fill the gap left by the closure of National Strategies last month, has been axed.

Early years qualifications extension welcomed

News

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

| Nursery World

Colleges and awarding bodies have been reacting to the decision by the Children's Workforce Development Council to extend the deadline for offering some early years and childcare qualifications until January 2012.

Apprenticeship trailblazer members walk out

News

Monday, August 25, 2014

| Nursery World

Three members of the Government's 'trailblazer' group for early years apprenticeships have left and been replaced, amid complaints the employers' group 'lacked democracy'.

Professor Nutbrown answers your questions

News

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.

Childminders - Opposition to agencies persists

News

Monday, June 16, 2014

| Nursery World

The Government's approach is only fuelling concerns in the sector, says Pat Gordon-Smith.

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DfE seeks views on new experience-based route qualification for early years practitioners

Work matters - Business Development: Let's keep up the good work on training

Early years trainer takes Government to court on re-sits

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

DfE consults sector on GCSE rules in wake of protest

To the point: We must aim high

Nursery Management: Apprenticeship Roundup - Slow progress

Welsh childcare sector 'most fragile in Britain'

Minister confirms workforce strategy for next year

Link 30 hours to workforce development: PACEY

GCSE requirements to be reviewed

Workforce Strategy, Part 6: Diversity - Mirror, mirror

"It doesn't take GCSEs..."

Survey highlights 'sector-wide' early years workforce crisis

Nursery Management: Training - Under one roof

New Ofsted Inspection Framework: Part 4 - How to achieve strong, responsive leadership

Level 5 standard in dispute

Editor's view - Now we have proof of the benefits Early Years Professionals bring

Apprenticeship levy warning to early years sector

Capita scraps Strategies' replacement amid concerns over budgets

Early years qualifications extension welcomed

Apprenticeship trailblazer members walk out

Professor Nutbrown answers your questions

Childminders - Opposition to agencies persists

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