News Archive
Nursery tales
Thursday 08. of July 2004By: The Guardian
Safe, stimulating and blessed by the government, nurseries have become the No1 choice of new parents struggling to balance work and bringing up kids. In the past decade, private nursery places have quadrupled in Britain,...
Does Kindergarten Need Cops? The youngest schoolkids are acting out in really outrageous ways. Why?
Monday 15. of December 2003By: Time Magazine - Claudia Wallis
Temper tantrums are nothing new in kindergarten and first grade, but the behavior of a 6-year-old girl this fall at a school in Fort Worth, Texas, had even the most experienced staff members wanting to run for cover. Asked to put...
There is only one way to tame these savage infants
Wednesday 03. of September 2003By: The Guardian - Polly Toynbee
The sound and fury of the press in a moral panic is a fine old British sport. The country's going to the dogs, again! Off to hell in a handcart, down the slippery slope to perdition!
It is usually youth to blame, but this week's...
School tests breach UN convention, envoy claims
Monday 14. of July 2003By: The Guardian - Will Woodward
The government is breaching the United Nations convention on children's rights by imposing a targets and testing regime in English schools that ignores their needs,
a UN representative has warned. In an interview with the...
Daycare 'harms behaviour'
Wednesday 28. of March 2007By: The Nursery World Magazine
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A Norse code for a better future?
Monday 02. of April 2007By: The Herald
The wind of change is blowing for Scotland's early years education and childcare sector. Politicians are learning new languages - Scandinavian ones, mostly. There is talk of giving parents and children an entitlement to services,...
The State of the Modern Family
Friday 30. of March 2007By: Equal Opportunities Commission
The Millennium Cohort Survey (MCS), the most comprehensive study of its kind, surveyed nearly 30,000 parents at the start of the millennium and again in 2003. The Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) has combined a new analysis...