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Nursery Management: Recruitment - Staff wanted

Monday, September 21, 2015

| Nursery World

A drop in the numbers applying for jobs, and in the quality of candidates, is leaving the sector floundering. Hannah Crown investigates.

Training Today: Level 3 Apprenticeship - On the level

Features

Monday, December 21, 2020

| Nursery World

The Level 3 apprenticeship was finally approved in spring 2019. Charlotte Goddard tracks the first cohort of apprentices to find out what they, and their early years employers, make of the new standard so far

Qualifications - Too much choice?

Features

Wednesday, March 3, 2021

| Nursery World

Research shows that prospective students must navigate their way through 320 early years degrees on the UCAS application system. Verity Campbell-Barr and Katherine Gulliver, authors of a new report, set out their findings

DfE to reform Level 3 early years qualifications

News

Friday, October 29, 2021

| Nursery World

The Department for Education is to review and reform level 3 early years qualifications as part of its measures to address the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on young children.

First education and childcare T-Level students receive their results

News

Wednesday, August 24, 2022

| Nursery World

Over 93 per cent of the first education and childcare T-level students in England have achieved a pass or above.

Proposed Government changes to childcare qualifications spark concern about 'de-professionalisation' of the workforce'

News

Wednesday, May 31, 2023

| Nursery World

Early years organisations, experts and consultants are worried that Government proposals on changes to early years qualifications, outlined in a consultation launched today, could lower standards and ultimately, the quality of care.

Nursery Management: Training - Down to a T

Features

Monday, March 16, 2020

| Nursery World

What can we expect from the T-Level, which will be published this spring? Julie Hyde, NCFE and CACHE executive director of education and training strategy, has an exclusive preview

Concerns student loan changes could reduce number of low-income students attending university

News

Friday, March 4, 2022

| Nursery World

There are fears changes to the terms of student loans could impact on the number of students from low-income families going to university to study subjects including degrees in early childhood.

Early years staffing under increasing strain

News

Monday, March 16, 2020

| Nursery World

Widespread recruitment and retention problems in nurseries are leading to a rise in workplace stress, according to a new report.

‘Generations of talent being lost through lack of investment in early years workforce’

News

Tuesday, August 25, 2020

| Nursery World

A new report urges the Government to improve the training, pay and conditions of early years staff to support all children’s learning and development before they start school.

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

Programme director Lyn Challender on the new phase of the Early Years Professional Development Programme

Opinion

Wednesday, January 25, 2023

| Nursery World

The Education Development Trust's programme director explains how Phase 3 of the DfE's Early Years Professional Development Programme (EYPDP), which they are delivering, aims to tackle the ongoing effects of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Sector invited to contribute to Level 3 Early Years Educator review

News

Tuesday, July 5, 2022

| Nursery World

The review of the Early Years Educator (EYE) qualification has opened for feedback from the sector and parents.

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.

Prime minister sets out plan to combine A Levels and T Levels

News

Thursday, October 5, 2023

| Nursery World

A Levels and T Levels will be combined into British Standard Qualification for 16- to -19-year-olds.

Apprentices the answer to coping with increased demand for 15 and 30 hour-places, says training provider

News

Tuesday, February 6, 2024

| Nursery World

Early years training provider Realise has committed to training more than 10,000 apprentices over the next five years to help settings address the ‘seismic’ recruitment crisis.

Study reveals trends in global ECEC workforce

News

Thursday, September 26, 2019

| Nursery World

Business property adviser Christie & Co has published its first report on global workforce trends in early childhood education and care (ECEC).

Parents 'will be turned away' due to Level 3 staffing crisis

News

Tuesday, May 4, 2021

| Nursery World

While recruiting Level 3-qualified staff has been an issue for several years, settings have told Nursery World that the situation is now so dire they fear they will be forced to turn families away because of staff shortages.

Best Practice Network chosen to deliver new Level 3 SENco training

News

Tuesday, August 2, 2022

| Nursery World

The Best Practice Network has been awarded a contract by the Department for Education (DfE) to deliver a new SENCo qualification from September.

LONG READ: Confusion over online childcare courses leading to rise in 'unsuitable' job applicants

News

Tuesday, May 30, 2023

| Nursery World

Settings are seeing an increase in candidates who are unaware that their qualifications are not full and relevant, which means that they are not suitable to fill roles. By Katy Morton

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Nursery Management: Recruitment - Staff wanted

Training Today: Level 3 Apprenticeship - On the level

Qualifications - Too much choice?

DfE to reform Level 3 early years qualifications

First education and childcare T-Level students receive their results

Proposed Government changes to childcare qualifications spark concern about 'de-professionalisation' of the workforce'

Nursery Management: Training - Down to a T

Concerns student loan changes could reduce number of low-income students attending university

Early years staffing under increasing strain

‘Generations of talent being lost through lack of investment in early years workforce’

Nursery Management: Training - Under one roof

Programme director Lyn Challender on the new phase of the Early Years Professional Development Programme

Sector invited to contribute to Level 3 Early Years Educator review

Level 5 standard in dispute

Prime minister sets out plan to combine A Levels and T Levels

Apprentices the answer to coping with increased demand for 15 and 30 hour-places, says training provider

Study reveals trends in global ECEC workforce

Parents 'will be turned away' due to Level 3 staffing crisis

Best Practice Network chosen to deliver new Level 3 SENco training

LONG READ: Confusion over online childcare courses leading to rise in 'unsuitable' job applicants

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