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As many of you return to work this week after the Christmas break, CREC directors, Dr Chris Pascal and Dr Tony Bertram, share their New Year's message for the CREC family...

NYMAZ have launched a new bursary for their Early Years Music Network members who wish to undertake our Level 4 Certificate for Music Educators (CME): Early Childhood!

The Birmingham Branch of Early Education will be hosting a free event at CREC next week to discuss the Bold Beginnings document.

Many of you will be all too aware of the loss of children’s centres across the country and the severe financial constraints faced by those that continue to operate, starkly highlighted in recent research published by The Sutton Trust.

This was another fantastic session that tonight had us looking at ideas around bridging the home-school and community perspectives around the child with a focus on both local and global perspectives. We were treated by a talk from Gopinder Kaur Sagoo who has recently reached the end of her PhD, who shared her research with us.

A new report on the crisis in the early years workforce has revealed that without immediate intervention, the sector is at risk of becoming unsustainable.

CREC directors, Professor Chris Pascal and Professor Tony Bertram, are to attend an event next week that will examine the forthcoming OECD International Early Learning and Child Well-Being Study (IELS).

In celebration of the holiday season, CREC office will be closed 23rd December - 2nd January 2018.

Creativity and Critical Thinking are central to an effective early years curriculum and pedagogy, argue CREC Directors, Professor Chris Pascal and Professor Tony Bertram, on the Nursery World blog.

CREC have serious misgivings about the content of Ofsted’s Bold Beginnings paper (published 29/11/17).

A new report on the crisis in the early years workforce has revealed that without immediate intervention, the sector is at risk of becoming unsustainable.

We are pleased to announce that the Teachers Leadership Development Programme that we ran last November, in partnership with the Birmingham Nursery Schools Teaching Schools Alliance, will be running again in January 2017.

This month's session on 10th October focused on Informed Consent. Huge thanks to Linda Shaw for supplying the notes below.

1. In the latest of our SCITT blog series, one of our SCITT student mentors shares what she thinks a trainee teacher needs to succeed in their training and become a successful, confident early years or primary teacher!

Yesterday, CREC Director, Chris Pascal, had the honour of overseeing the official opening of the brand new Goodway Nursery School building in Great Barr.

Elisabetta Biffi joined us from Italy to share her research; her visit was part of an Erasmus exchange organised through Ioanna Palaiologou. There are further notes on her work in her biography which can be accessed here; as well as links to her recent publications.

As we near the end of another academic year, our current cohort of SCITT students have been reflecting on their teacher training journey and have begun to look to the future, graduation, and the start of their NQT year in September.

The April 'Learning Circle Reflections' come from Donna Gaywood.

This month's session on 26th April focused Children's Rights and was led by Alison Moore and Aline Cole-Albäck.