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Editor's View - Development Matters matters

Friday, July 12, 2013

| Nursery World

Does the fact that Development Matters has been moved from the Department for Education's EYFS section of its website matter?

Editor's view - Wales the brave

Opinion

Monday, June 1, 2015

| Nursery World

The Welsh Government deserves plaudits for its bravery in implementing the play-based Foundation Phase for threeto seven-year-olds - radical indeed compared to the way that things are progressing in England.

The ''Tesco-isation'' of England's Early Years: The Choices before Us

Opinion

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

| Nursery World

Those who lived through the bleak days of the Woodhead/Blunkett Education regime of the late 1990s scarcely imagined that early-years policy-making could be any more Dark-Aged, but in this respect the current Wilshaw/Gove regime is breaking all previous records.

Editor’s view - Getting a move on

Opinion

Monday, August 6, 2018

| Nursery World

With levels of childhood obesity in crisis, everyone must take swift action to tackle poor diets and lack of physical exercise

Editor's View - the revised EYFS

Opinion

Monday, April 2, 2012

| Nursery World

The revised EYFS is everywhere - except on the DfE website home page!

A question of logic

Opinion

Monday, July 27, 2015

| Nursery World

Sue Cowley asks what summer-born children need

Alison Featherbe: 'Lessons from past safeguarding cases have driven the need for clarity'

Opinion

Tuesday, April 23, 2024

| Nursery World

Early years expert Alison Featherbe delves deeper into the DfE's plans to change the safeguarding requirements in the EYFS.

To the Point - Digging up the future

Opinion

Monday, November 14, 2016

| Nursery World

Professor Cathy Nutbrown says that the downgrading of classical studies at A level could have ramifications for the early years.

EYFS consultation: Question of responsibility

Opinion

Monday, January 6, 2020

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Making ‘positive attachments’ to adults and ‘forming friendships with peers’ should not be part of the Early Learning Goals for children, says early years expert Anne O'Connor

The revised EYFS: Too little, too late

Opinion

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

| Nursery World

It's time for a completely new approach, argue Margaret Edgington, Grethe Hooper Hansen, Richard House and Kim Simpson, for the the Open EYE Steering Group

Why Early Years Teacher standards fail the youngest children

Opinion

Monday, July 22, 2013

| Nursery World

The Early Years Teacher standards have a vital role in shaping the nature of the work that early years teachers will undertake and the training towards meeting those standards.

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

The Government needs to catch up with early years professionals

Opinion

Monday, March 22, 2021

| Nursery World

Early years assessment needs rethinking in light of the pandemic's effects, say Dr Guy Roberts-Holmes, Dr Siew-Fung Lee and Dr Diana Sousa of UCL Institute of Education.

Re-examine the baseline

Opinion

Monday, January 26, 2015

| Nursery World

How, why and when we should assess young children's learning is once more a matter for debate in English policy.

A new conversation has begun!

Opinion

Friday, October 14, 2022

| Nursery World

The arena of Early Childhood Education (ECE) has always been, and continues to be, an intense area of discussion and debate, says James Hempsall, founder of hey!

Practitioners must speak out about the failings of proposed ELGs

Opinion

Wednesday, November 13, 2019

| Nursery World

Early years consultant Helen Moylett is urging early years staff to make clear in the revised EYFS consultation the 'failings' of the proposed ELG for communication and language.