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Can good services remain standing?

    Opinion
  • Monday, June 21, 2010
    • | CYP Now
Like the suffocating drone of vuvuzelas, cuts continue to dominate the atmosphere in the children's services arena and in public services more generally.

Letters to the Editor: Webinar for childcare providers

    Opinion
  • Friday, January 1, 2021
    • | CYP Now
Managing an early years and childcare setting, whether it be a home-based childminder, out of school club, a small voluntary playgroup, a nursery or a chain, a school or children’s centre, is a complex task. It is one of balancing quality, health and safety, with parents’ and children’s needs, funding and fees, and business sustainability.

Family involvement helps bring reading to life

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, April 15, 2008
    • | CYP Now
Literacy is core to the curriculum and we all know the ability to read and write is an essential part of life. But, according to the National Literacy Trust, one in five people in the UK struggle with these skills.

Should we train for life or for Tesco?

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, October 27, 2009
    • | CYP Now
First we had the concept of McJobs and now we have the possibility of Tescolifications. The Most Admired Business Leader of 2005, the chief executive of Tesco Sir Terry Leahy has waded into the contemporary education debate.

Lifelong learning may not be for everyone

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, November 27, 2007
    • | CYP Now
The European Union, through its 2000 "Lisbon strategy", aspires to make Europe the most advanced knowledge-based economy in the world by 2010. It is an aspiration premised upon the extension and expansion of education or, to be more precise, "lifelong learning".

Super-size kids vs super-size nannyism

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, April 14, 2009
    • | CYP Now
We've all got our memories, rarely charitable, of school dinners. We've probably also got our memories of how we dodged the stodge, with or without our parents' consent. I saved for my first guitar by doing without for a term. I am not quite sure what I actually lived on.

An alternative approach to helping looked-after children gain good grades

    Opinion
  • Monday, October 4, 2010
    • | CYP Now
When middle-class children fall behind at school, the parental response is often special tutoring. In London, tutoring for secondary school admission is a substantial industry, and in Birmingham almost all children being put in for grammar school tests are tutored. I'm not judging this, by the way, I was tutored (fruitlessly) for my French O-level; and we paid for extra music lessons whenever needed.

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