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Nord Anglia doubles nurseries

26 July 2001, Nursery World

Nord Anglia, the private education provider, has doubled its stake in the nursery market by buying the Milton Keynes-based Bright Horizons group for Pounds5.8m. Nord Anglia currently owns the Princess...

BUPA propelling chain expansion

26 July 2001, Nursery World

The Teddies Nurseries chain has opened more than one new nursery per month since it was bought by BUPA Childcare for Pound15.5m in August last year. Teddies at that time...

Highly rated setting to see the stars next year

26 July 2001, Nursery World

A national star-rating scheme for early years settings in England is to be piloted by the government next year. Investors in Children will rate nurseries and childcare providers on the...

Five nursery nurses from Ridge Danyers College

26 July 2001, Nursery World

(Photograph) - Five nursery nurses from Ridge Danyers College in Stockport - Jane Gunstone, Natalie Sweet, Laura Sherlock, Amy Jessop and Lisa Quinn - were presented with Europasses by Labour...

Students design prizewinning robot for schools

26 July 2001, Nursery World

Three childcare students who designed a bilingual speaking robot to help Asian children improve their English have scooped first prize in a national competition. Victoria Makin, Leanne Hampson and Karen...

Teachers mourn representative

26 July 2001, Nursery World

Alan Manasseh, the senior professional officer (pay and conditions) at the Professional Association of Teachers (PAT), died suddenly on 15 July at the age of 53. A former geography teacher...

Tax credit changes seek users' views

26 July 2001, Nursery World

Childcare providers have been invited by the Inland Revenue to suggest ways to improve the childcare tax credit element of its new employment tax credit, which is to replace the...

Nursery backers return to battle

26 July 2001, Nursery World

Two more nurseries are facing closure in a London borough where campaigners have occupied other threatened nurseries with partial success. The pressure group Friends of Hackney Nurseries is campaigning for...

Artworks awards

26 July 2001, Nursery World

(Photograph) - Zyria Ansah-Garwood, and William Burles and Emily Ratsma, both six, of the Fox Primary School in London were among 20 children aged four to 16 and 26 schools...

Just dad

26 July 2001, Nursery World

Why do single fathers continue to suffer a sense of isolation now that more father-friendly initiatives are getting underway? The answers are not so simple, writes Wendy Wallace The words...