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Early Years Teachers: Part 3 - Joined-up learning

Monday, June 1, 2015

| Nursery World

In her third article on Early Years Teacher training options, Charlotte Goddard finds out how one aspiring practitioner is combining the qualification with her undergraduate degree

Nursery Management: Training - Initial findings

Features

Monday, March 18, 2019

| Nursery World

How useful is Early Years Teacher training and what difference does it make to leading practice? Samantha Sutton-Tsang, senior lecturer from the Department for Children and Families at the University of Worcester, did some research on the subject

Nursery workers consider leaving profession due to workload

News

Friday, October 23, 2015

| Nursery World

Three fifths of early years graduates have considered leaving the profession in the past six months, according to a new survey.

Workforce Strategy, Part 3: Graduates - Equal opportunities

Features

Thursday, October 5, 2017

| Nursery World

The sector is not set up to adequately reward Early Years Teachers, but Charlotte Goddard finds that plans to open up career routes have made limited progress so far

Early Years Teachers launch campaign to demand teacher status

News

Wednesday, October 19, 2016

| Nursery World

A group of early years teachers is campaigning to be awarded qualified teacher status in a bid to boost their standing and pay.

More graduates eligible for Early Years Teacher training bursaries

News

Wednesday, March 9, 2016

| Nursery World

The DfE has extended the bursary scheme for graduate entry to Early Years Teacher Status courses to those with 2.2 degrees for 2016/17.

What do Early Childhood Studies Degrees offer today?

Features

Tuesday, January 31, 2023

| Nursery World

More than 25 years since their debut, what opportunities do ECS degrees offer today? By Dr Tanya Richardson, vice chair of the Early Childhood Studies Degree Network

Early years teacher standards 'ignore sector's views'

News

Monday, July 22, 2013

| Nursery World

Early years experts and academics have slammed the new Early Years Teacher standards, which were set out last week by the National College of Teaching and Leadership.

Nursery Management: Training - Call for clarity

Features

Wednesday, September 18, 2013

| Nursery World

Many nursery managers are still trying to gauge what the Early Years Educator and Early Years Teacher roles are really going to mean from a practical perspective. Karen Faux reports

One university ditches EYT, while numbers rise at another

News

Monday, October 1, 2018

| Nursery World

Amid falling numbers of Early Years Teacher students, the University of Worcester has dropped its course, although Greenwich university has doubled its intake this year.

Diary of a trainee Early Years Teacher

Opinion

Friday, October 2, 2015

| Nursery World

In the first instalment of her monthly online journal, trainee EYT Emma Davis talks about her interview and impressions of starting the new course

DfE criticised over lack of workforce strategy

News

Thursday, June 16, 2016

| Nursery World

The Department for Education remains vague over when it will publish its workforce strategy, despite criticism from a government spending watchdog for not having one while launching the 30-hours policy.

School Direct programme expanded to early years from September

News

Monday, April 7, 2014

| Nursery World

The Government is expanding the School Direct programme, which offers work-based training for graduates, to the early years from this September.

Early Years Teachers: Part 4 - On the fast track

Features

Monday, July 13, 2015

| Nursery World

Training to become an Early Years Teacher doesn't have to take an entire year. Charlotte Goddard meets an experienced nursery practitioner who took a shorter route to the qualification.

How having an early years degree boosts career progression

Features

Tuesday, February 28, 2023

| Nursery World

What do ECS degrees and the Early Childhood Graduate Practitioner Competencies mean for career progression? By Philippa Thompson and Tanya Richardson at the Early Childhood Studies Degrees Network

Sector concerned DfE mentoring programme will put added pressure on nurseries

News

Wednesday, December 1, 2021

| Nursery World

The DfE’s new mentoring programme has faced criticism from the sector, with some raising concern it will take much needed senior staff away from settings already experiencing a recruitment crisis.