Early years education

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  Underprivileged two-year-olds being declined by 'middle-class' nurseries

  23 Aug 2014:

  Lack of places leaves 63,000 on waiting lists despite coalition pledge

• Nicky Morgan has given birth to a child so, obviously, she can solve childcare …

  19 Aug 2014: Laura McInerney: The new education secretary will need more than motherhood and the ability to multitask in order to fulfil her early years responsibility

• Childcare experts dismayed by plans to cut funding for childcare that does not promote "fundamental British values"

  8 Aug 2014:

  Childcare experts dismayed by plans to cut funding for childcare that does not promote "fundamental British values"

• Nicky Morgan: toddlers must learn 'British values'

  8 Aug 2014:

  Education secretary allows local authorities to cut off funding to nurseries promoting 'extremist views' – including creationism

• IPPR calls for all families to receive help with childcare costs

  29 Jun 2014: Thinktank makes radical proposal to boost children's development and parents' employment rates

• Lib Dems pledge to protect education spending 'from cradle to college'

  16 Jun 2014: Nick Clegg unveils Lib Dem manifesto pledge to ringfence education budgets for early years and older teenagers

• Bilingualism offers 'huge advantages', claims Cambridge University head

  2 Jun 2014:

  Vice-chancellor Leszek Borysiewicz wants education system to allow children to strive to become as bilingual as they can be

• Private nurseries exaggerate attainment gap and flaws in careers advice

  Guardian Professional, 30 May 2014:

  Weekly education round up: Parents and teachers might unwittingly stifle students' career aspirations and children from poor backgrounds lose out on quality of early years provision

• John Bruer: 'Growing up in poverty doesn't damage your brain irretrievably

  6 May 2014:

  Laura Smith: The US philosopher rejects the neuroscientific view that early experiences set in stone children's patterns for life

• Policymakers seduced by neuroscience to justify early intervention agenda

  6 May 2014:

  Patrick Butler: Experts warn that 'artfully packed' ideas from the US downplay poverty and inequality in the lives of problem families and are being conscripted as 'moral arguments' to take children into care

• Labour's education plans, overblown early years research and firstborns excel

  Guardian Professional, 2 May 2014:

  Weekly education round up: Is early years policy based on trustworthy research? And is education the best way to fight poverty?

• Neuroscience and child protection

  27 Apr 2014: Letters: It is unhelpful for any theory to appear to trap individuals in their early experiences alone

• Is misused neuroscience defining early years and child protection policy?

  26 Apr 2014: Zoe Williams: The idea that a child's brain is irrevocably shaped in the first three years increasingly drives government policy on adoption and early childhood intervention. But does the science stand up to scrutiny?

• Early years learning - the fights we do not need

  22 Apr 2014: As the teaching unions join the polarised debate over the best way of educating the under-fives, there is middle ground, says Estelle Morris

• Teachers may boycott tests for four-year-olds

  21 Apr 2014: National Union of Teachers conference backs moves to oppose baseline assessment saying it will put pressure on pupils

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