It might not be a window to your soul but it’s better for your brain. Why writing – once an ancient “handicraft” – is still worth doing well.
A major report into childcare and early education is due later this year. Businesswoman Sam Mostyn says they are as important to the economy as public schooling and universal healthcare.
Factual series Fizzy and Suds is a new form of early childhood entertainment that taps into divergent thinking.
The Minns government has finalised the 100 sites around the state that will have public preschools for the first time.
Free kindergarten boosted Victorian attendance to above the national average,along with a scramble for early childhood educators. But many centres fear for their future.
Stories like Alianna’s and Michele’s are the human reality that lies behind the newspaper headlines and pundits’ takes on how much we are paying for the NDIS.
Three Glen Eira councillors were splattered,with one requiring first aid to remove eggshell from his eye.
Childcare fees continue to impact the career choices of parents,although costs overall decreased last quarter following subsidy changes.
A council in Melbourne’s south-east is considering closing three childcare centres,leaving dozens of families scrambling to find other vacancies before the new year.
Families in NSW and Victoria are more likely to delay their child’s first year of school,but that says more about those states than anything else,an expert says.
The ACCC found families were spending as much as 16 per cent of their income on centre-based full-time daycare,and called on government to consider changes to policies such as the Child Care Subsidy.