early-years

Scientists who opportunistically promote early-years intervention to justify publications and grants risk turning neuroscience into a joke.

Why parents shouldn't feel guilty if they can't devote time to their toddlers 2011

Regarding an investor's typical life cycle of saving for retirement one can imagine an early-years period of letting dividends compound to get the full 7%, then a later period of spending dividends and having principal grow at 3%, then a period of liquidating principal, all multiplied by millions of investors at all different stages of the cycle, averaging out to a 3% compound growth for stocks overall.

Social Security Reform, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Alison Garnham, chief executive of the Child Poverty Action Group, said: Alan Milburn is absolutely right that we should not be narrowing our child poverty strategy to just early-years investment, and must also tackle low income.

Alan Milburn warns government will miss 2020 child poverty target 2011

Around 1.2 million children in England aged three and four – around 95% of the total number in this age group – currently benefit from free early-years education.

Parents set to benefit from changes to free childcare 2011

The ambient music is mostly Welsh indie or spiky contemporary folk there's no Riverdance-addled pseudo-Celticism here and the excellent bilingual children's section has small chairs and tables for early-years book-browsers.

My favourite independent bookshop: Palas Print, Caernarfon 2011

But she sees an obvious problem with the early-years vision.

The evolution of Sure Start: the challenges and the successes 2011

The first is the assumption that organisations can create employee mutuals by directive leadership and financial incentives in terms of underwriting pension liabilities or providing an early-years order book from the parent body.

Overcoming challenges of public sector mutualisation 2011

In Thurrock, Essex, the council confirmed it was cutting a teacher of the deaf who specialises in early-years education, leaving one teacher to support about 90 children.

Deaf children's services cut at one in five councils in England 2011

Pen Green will also lead a project with 16 other centres in England to set up a network of early-years teaching centres.

The evolution of Sure Start: the challenges and the successes 2011

Millions of working parents could benefit from a proposed change to a free childcare entitlement being announced as part of a shake-up of early-years education.

Parents set to benefit from changes to free childcare 2011