Two views on the Government's decision to require social welfare beneficiaries with little children to arrange for them to attend preschool education centres from July next year.

Editorial: Early education has not been a priority for this Government. But having made it compulsory for beneficiaries National will find it hard to argue against wider compulsion.

Early childhood experts are in shock after a government decision to make education compulsory from the age of 3 for children of welfare beneficiaries.

Preschool pupils are teaching their teachers a thing or two with their grasp of new technology.

Someone who has done nothing but alienate large groups of teachers is a deadbeat choice for the job of Education Minister, says Dita De Boni.

Taskforce to advocate better performance reporting so carers can compare centres.

Childcare managers made false claims about where they worked that helped the country's largest daycare company boost its taxpayer funding to $60 million, documents show.

Kids with imaginary guns are learning real safety lessons at kindergartens and early childcare centres around the country.

The previous Government was much taken with the economic benefit of getting and keeping more women in work.