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Qualified nursery teachers make little difference to attainment, study finds
13 February 2017
Children with graduate nursery teachers achieve only slightly more by the end of Reception than children with unqualified teachers
Children who have access to a qualified teacher at nursery school do only slightly better at age 5 than those who do not, research suggests.
A new study concludes that a child’s educational achievement at the end of their Reception year is only very slightly higher if they have been taught in a nursery with a teacher trained to graduate level.
There was also little difference between those attending a nursery rated "outstanding" by Ofsted and others.
Researchers from the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, the University of Surrey and University College London, compared data on children's results with information about the nurseries they attended in the year before starting school for around 1.8 million people born in England between September 2003 and August 2006.