| Many nursery schools and early learning | | | | funding is going to have to come from the government |
| establishments already have high quality staff that are | | | | and this may well mean either fund raising through |
| drawn to the pre school sector not through any | | | | increased taxes or redistribution of existing educational |
| financial incentive but mainly through a love of children | | | | funds and budgets. In the UK more money is spent on |
| and a desire to help them learn. These qualities are | | | | secondary education rather than pre school and |
| rightly sort after in nursery staff but the fact is the pre | | | | nursery education and yet if we invested more in |
| school industry still suffers from a lack of high quality | | | | children up to the age of 5 years old, many good traits |
| candidates due to the remuneration packages | | | | and qualities would have already been established and |
| available. For this reason the first 3 tips are based | | | | therefore less money would have to be spent on |
| around funding for nursery schools and the money | | | | dealing with unruly children at secondary level. |
| available to the pre school sector. | | | | Top tip number 4 for improving our pre school system |
| The first tip would be to combine the love nursery | | | | is to actually get parents more involved with the |
| staff have for teaching and working with children with | | | | development of their children. The sad fact is many |
| better qualified nursery staff. Some of the most | | | | parents simply do not have the time to dedicate to |
| successful nursery schools in the world are in | | | | their own children which means they rely totally on |
| Scandinavia and in those countries, nursery staff are | | | | nursery staff for their under 5 year olds development. |
| of an equal standing as teachers. Contrast this to | | | | Structured parental programmes which would give |
| nursery staff in the UK where less than 8% of staff | | | | parents advice and the skills to develop their children at |
| are educated to university level and you will notice a | | | | home could have a massive affect. |
| major difference. | | | | And this approach to learning and working together |
| So with this shortfall in degree standard staff in the pre | | | | brings us onto the fifth and final way in which nursery |
| school sector what can be done to increase the | | | | school education can be improved upon and that is for |
| calibre of nursery staff? One way would certainly be | | | | nurseries and schools to learn from what already |
| to pay staff in the nursery sector more money. And | | | | works and roll this out across the board. Teaching |
| whilst the best teachers are not necessarily motivated | | | | done well works and so the most successful teaching |
| by money, it would certainly help more degree | | | | methods need to be adopted by all nurseries. |
| educated consider the pre school route to a career | | | | Children learn best when they are engaged and taught |
| rather than choosing industries such as banking, | | | | to think. Combine this style of learning with better |
| insurance or other financial services routes. | | | | nursery staff, higher wages, better parenting and all |
| So if we want better staff and we want to | | | | pre school learning establishments teaching in the best |
| encourage them with higher wages how is this going | | | | possible way and our nurseries will improve and so will |
| to be achieved? Well the fact is any increase in | | | | our children's chances of success. |