Archive for February, 2012
Don’t read this if you have a hangover
Posted by juneosullivan in Early Years, Training on February 20, 2012
Apparently recent research called Lessons for leaders from the people who Matter undertaken by Harris Interactive found that employees from across the globe think that one third of their bosses are ineffective, lack empathy and have poor leadership skills. What’s more, it states that employees would rather suffer a bad hangover, do housework or look […]
Loneliness is the scariest thing we have to face.
Posted by juneosullivan in Early Years, Education on February 12, 2012
According to Downing St, isolation and loneliness are more dangerous to our health than smoking. Well as the saying goes, tell me about it! But why do we need Downing St to tell us this? We have been saying this forever. It’s one of the main reasons why at LEYF we have a multi-generational approach […]
Failure of the Free Entitlement? No way.
Posted by juneosullivan in Early Years, Education, Research on February 3, 2012
The National Audit Office report Delivering the free entitlement to education for three- and four-year-olds has sent the press into pessimism overdrive, telling us the £1.9bn spending on provision of the free entitlement by local authorities in 2011-12 (providing places for 831,800 in 28,630 settings) was a waste of money, with apparently no measurable benefits to […]