The session on Informant Groups, held on 13th December, was run by Paola Pedrelli.

The December instalment of 'Learning Circle Reflections' comes from Aline Cole-Albäck

This December, to highlight the upcoming BECERA conference on the topic of Play, we created a special advent calendar to highlight and celebrate the importance of play in early childhood.

A new report on the crisis in the early years workforce has revealed that without immeCommissioned by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), American Institutes for Research (AIR) approached our directors, Professor Chris Pascal and Professor Tony Bertram to gain better understanding of the British Early Care and Education (ECE), in order to highlight those practices that ensure all children, including those from vulnerable families, have access to high-quality ECE. Chris and Tony participated in a high level seminar in Princeton where they presented the IEA study findings. diate intervention, the sector is at risk of becoming unsustainable.

Onkar, one of our wonderful trainee teachers enrolled on the School Centred Initial Teacher Training course at CREC, shares his experience since starting his training in September 2016...

The government is proposing drastic funding cuts for all state run Nursery Schools across the country from 2019. This will mean that 400 state Nursery Schools will no longer be able to exist in their current form.

The second Learning Circle meeting of 2016/17 was last Thursday and we were delighted to welcome some new members to the group.

Music Educators and Researchers of Young Children (MERYC) UK, now MERYC England, has recently been awarded charitable status and we are pleased to say that CREC has become its formal head office.

The new academic year is upon us which can only mean one thing... The CREC Learning Circle is back!

The first meeting of 2016/17 took place last week and it was great to see everyone again after, what we hope was, a relaxing and enjoyable summer break.

CREC directors, Chris Pascal and Tony Bertram, joined the folks at the Early Years Podcast last month to talk about the HAWWC Boys Research Project and share some of their personal insights and experiences from the project.

We continue our exploration of the exciting new MA modules at CREC , with this piece from Rose Drury. Rose will be heading up the Leading Multilingual Settings module and has a wealth of experience studying multilingualism in the early years.

Multiple Cardiff settings to embed Effective Early Learning (EEL) Programme to improve practice

The third instalment of our #studywithCREC series comes from Sally Teare, who will be delivering the new Leading Literacy and Phonics MA module, starting in September 2016.

Well, it's been a week since the Euro's kicked off in France and with England currently sitting top of their group there's no sign of 'Football Fever' dying down any time soon!

The Early Years Nutrition (EYN) Partnership has been established as an independent social enterprise with the ambition that every child in England aged under five will have access to expert nutrition support within their early years setting.

To highlight some of the exciting new MA modules on offer at CREC, we've asked a few of our fantastic tutors to tell us a little bit more about the modules they'll be teaching to help you decide whether you should #studywithCREC!

CREC’s view is that the best early years system, which has the highest outcomes for children, is one which supports and develops a highly qualified workforce.

18-Apr-2016Since 2013 CREC has been working with the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) on an international study on early childhood education (ECES).

The first ECES report (Early Childhood Policies and Systems in Eight Countries), authored by CREC, has now been published and is available to view online .

The next APPG meeting on Nursery Schools and Nursery Classes has been booked for Tuesday 17th May at Westminster! We received the following invitation from the secretariat:

As I’m sure many of you will have already seen, today the Secretary of State for Education Nicky Morgan has presented the white paper – ‘Educational Excellence Everywhere’.