Want a qualification that definitely leads to job satisfaction? Montessori teacher training has just launched their first foundation degree in Early Childhood Practice. Work with children who love to learn from birth to seven. Great career opportunities await.
What is Montessori?
Montessori was inspired by Dr Maria Montessori in the early 1900s and is now the world’s largest global education movement. It is used and acclaimed in 600 UK schools & 22,000 worldwide and continues to influence “mainstream” educationalist thinkers everywhere.
Montessori isn’t just for pre-school children. Some UK schools take children up to 11 years.
Montessori is holistic in approach and focuses on the individual child – allowing them to develop at their own pace. It is backed by the Government’s Early Years Foundation Stage.
Montessori children have a high level of cognitive attainment at age 5 – above the national average. They also show strong levels of positive social and behavioral development in all areas.
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Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) have launched an interactive online consultation on proposals for young people leaving social care.
The DCSF consultation is a new approach to conducting consultations online and aims to engage as many potential respondents as possible. This is because when the Government is developing policies, it’s important to take into account the impact of the proposals on different sectors of society. You can help shape policy for young people by giving your perspectives, ideas and feedback, whether you’re currently in social care, have left social care or are simply have an opinion. Click here for a summary of the consultation.
The goal of the consultation pilot is to make it easier to navigate the relevant documents, and help you find the sections that interest you. The pilot encourages open discussion by including a facility for participants to comment on the consultation as a whole, or on specific elements of the proposals. The consultation closes at midnight on 19 March 2010.
Visit the site and have your say here.
Happy February! Although the days are finally getting longer, we are still a long way off seeing any sunshine so we have come up with a truly fantastic competition, in conjunction with our friends at Play, to help you pass the time until we can wear short sleeves outside again. To help alleviate the boredom during these long winter evenings, Play.Com have kindly donated a Sony Bravia 37” LCD TV and Sony BDP-S360 Blu-ray player, including copies of Slumdog Millionaire and Terminator Salvation to get your Blu-ray collection started.
The Sony Bravia television has full HD1080 capability so you can enjoy cinema quality entertainment at home with superb picture quality, vivid colours and sharp edges. USB connectivity allows playback of both music and photos directly through your TV and it comes with an integrated digital tuner so you do not need a set-top box to view Freeview TV and radio channels. The Sony Blu-ray player gives you a movie experience worthy of your HDTV. As well as to delivering superior HD images, the Blu-ray player also supports BD-Live and also plays your existing DVD library. With all of this fantastic functionality what are you waiting for? Read More »
A lifeline for youth
As we prepare for economic recovery, the competition for jobs has never been fiercer. With record numbers of school leavers and graduates looking for work, the job market in 2010 will be as challenging as ever.
But if the struggle to find work has been getting you down, some great news has arrived. A new package of support from the Government launched last month offers tens of thousands of new jobs, internships, work experience and training opportunities to young jobseekers across the UK.
Backing Young Britain is a campaign aimed at helping provide you with more opportunities when looking for a job, work experience or developing skills.
They are running a series of Careers Fairs in shopping centres and football clubs around the country. The Careers Fair will give you the chance to find out about a range of opportunities in your area relating to gaining employment, an Apprenticeship or experience of work as well as providing advice and information on ways to further develop your skills. Those involved in the fair will include local employers, Jobcentre Plus and Further Education colleges.
Newcastle upon Tyne, St James Park, Newcastle United Football Club
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The CIMA Professional Qualification – a great way into business
If you’ve got a good head for numbers and you’re keen to get into the world of business, it might be worth considering the CIMA Professional Qualification in management accounting. Don’t be put off by the word accounting. Management accountants don’t fit the stereotype of number crunchers and bean counters. In fact, quite the opposite.
CIMA provides a qualification that will enable you to work at the heart of business. CIMA’s unique toolkit of skills and its broad approach to understanding the different dynamics of the business world is designed to create the business leaders of the future. Read More »
These are the five winners of The Open University and will each receive £150 vouchers to get a taste of what it’s like to study with The Open University.
Our Congratulations go to:
- Mr Young, Cleveland
- Miss Jenkins, London
- Miss Found, Kent
- Miss Robertson, Warrington
- Mr Hui, London
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Fancy the best job in the world? We’re looking for five people aged between 16-24 to form a board of advisers for notgoingtouni.com What that means is that you’ll boss us around, interview celebrities, rant at MPs, go on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, come to London to have lunch with us a few times a year and be a voice for issues that people your age are affected by. Read More »
Five free places available Online learning specialist Resource Development International (RDI), is celebrating 20 years in business by launching a new degree sponsorship programme with the University of Wales. The scheme will provide five free places on selected degree courses via online learning for successful applicants.
The initiative has also been launched in response to the growing number of students who either cannot afford to go to university due to the high cost associated with traditional campus study, or wish to study flexibly, while juggling a career or family commitments. Read More »
If you’re looking for a different kind of opportunity away from a routine 9 to 5 desk job, and want to gain a nationally recognised qualification whilst earning a competitive salary, the Royal Mail Apprenticeship Scheme may be the turbo boost you’ve been looking for.
Our Apprenticeship Scheme
Designed with the Learning Skills Council specifically to provide jobs for school leavers (16-18) with little or no current work experience, our scheme lasts for nine months and combines practical and theoretical learning with development.
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