Funding for universal access to quality early childhood education in the year before school must continue! The Commonwealth Government is reviewing the national funding agreement that supports all Australian children to attend 15 hours of quality early childhood education in the year before they start school. The Review is being framed as an opportunity to […]
Will 4/10/18 become a date that future early childhood students have to commit to memory? That’s the day when Labor promised to extend universal preschool access to every three and four year old child in Australian, permanently. CELA CEO Michele Carnegie and Amplify Editor Bec Lloyd put this round up together for today’s edition. On […]
Outdoor education is a priority for many early learning services. The rich experiences can make remarkable differences in the way children learn even after they are back under a ceiling. This week we hear from a service that asked the children how to embed sustainability education into its program. CELA writer Margaret Paton spoke to […]
Amplify’s series on school readiness around Australia showed how widely the states and territories still differ in their policies and practices around transitioning children to school. We can’t even agree on the name for the last years of early learning and the first year of school. Prep, reception, pre-primary, preschool, are just some of the […]
Last month we shared a story on the startling $30,000 pay gap that exists between teachers who have the same kinds of degrees and same kinds of responsibilities: early childhood teachers, after 10 years of work, can expect to earn $30K less than their colleagues in primary schools. Clearly, it struck a chord. The article shot instantly […]
The NSW Government says it will fund up to 8000 more three-year-old children for places in community preschools, but has the story raised more questions than it’s answered so far? You can read about the announcement here, the community preschool reaction here, why it matters so much here, and this week we share concerns from a […]
The NSW Government says it will fund about 8000 more three-year-old children for places in a community preschool, but has the story raised more questions than it’s answered so far? For Australia’s most populated state to move towards additional preschool funding is great news – even with the current limits to the package. On the […]
Earlier this year we reported that a global economic analysis company, IBISWorld, projected ‘preschool education’ (see end note) would join data storage services, craft beer production, aquaculture, and courier delivery services as the fastest growing employment for 2017-18 and up to 2023. IBISWorld analyst James Thomson told us that growing wages and demand for skilled […]
It’s 117 years and 36 days since Federation, but this is what Australia’s policy approach to funding education and care looks like.
Skills shortages in early childhood education Telling the sector nothing we don’t know about skills shortages, but saying it in a way politicians might understand, a new report from IBISWorld identifies preschool teaching as a high demand area for employment for at least the next five years. ‘Preschool education’ joins data storage services, craft beer […]
