Readers with an interest in early years provision in other countries should be interested in a new report from UNICEF. Published yesterday, The Child Care Transition examines early childhood education and care in 25 economically advanced countries by utilising a league table system, measuring each country against a set of benchmarks which are considered important elements of good practice in childcare.
The UK appears in the middle of the table, and is credited with having achieved 5 of the 10 benchmarks which were applied to each country. However, the DCSF has disputed the results of the study, claiming that there are several inaccuracies in the report. Sweden came top of UNICEF's league, having achieved each of the 10 benchmarks on which countries were assessed.
Related Posts
The Early Years: an International Perspective
Tonight's #EYTalking topic on Twitter (see previous post for details) is all about sharing ideas and[...]
International Reports
3 separate recently published international reports have popped up in my feeds today, which seems as[...]
New from Department for Education
It's obviously a busy day at the Department for Education - it's only 10 o'clock and already they've[...]
Learning Begins Early
I've written about the Bernard van Leer Foundation on this site before (see previous post). Now the [...]
Education At A Glance 2013
Today sees the publication of the latest edition of the OECD's annual Education At A Glance report. [...]
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
0 comments:
Post a Comment
Click to see the code!
To insert emoticon you must added at least one space before the code.