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Fifth of staff working with children ‘do not have A-levels’

Published on September 28, 2012,

Almost 90,000 nursery workers and childminders fail to hold qualifications higher than a GCSE, despite growing alarm over skill levels in early education. This is from the Telegraph…

New figures show that 21 per cent of people working with young children are not qualified to A-level standard or above. (more…)

 

Clegg pledges £100m to create free nursery places for 100,000 of the poorest two-year-olds

Published on September 25, 2012,

The government is to give councils in England £100m to help meet its promise of providing free nursery places for 100,000 two-year-olds. This is from the BBC…

The coalition has pledged to create the care for the poorest two-fifths of households by 2014. (more…)

 

Ofsted inspectors say revamped Bristol primary school not up to scratch

Published on August 3, 2012,

From This Is Bristol reports a primary school and nursery which opened two years ago and benefited from a multi-million pound refurbishment is failing, according to the government’s education watchdog.

Long Cross Primary and Nursery School in Lawrence Weston formed in September 2010 from the amalgamation of the former Weston Park Primary and Bluebell Valley Nursery. (more…)

 

Edgewood shrugs off label of failing school with glowing Ofsted report

Published on July 31, 2012,

The Hucknall Dispatch is reporting that Edgewood Primary and Nursery School is celebrating a remarkable turn-round in less than a year and a half.

The school, on Edgewood Drive, plumbed the depths when it was placed in Special Measures in February last year amid a report that declared it wasn’t providing an acceptable quality of education to pupils. (more…)

 
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