Analysis: What is ‘baby PISA’?
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When the media runs headlines such as ‘UK schools falling behind leading countries', the stories are often based on data mined from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). The three-yearly...
Why subsidized home daycares are struggling to survive in Quebec
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For years, Diane Rufh had no trouble keeping the six spots at her subsidized home daycare full.
If she had an opening, all it took was a sign in the window at her home in Pincourt, on Île Perrot, and a parent...
Demand for daycare workers in Saskatchewan a growing concern
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The deficit isn't the only issue the Saskatchewan government will wrestle with in 2017.
The ongoing issues surrounding funding and staffing for licensed daycares in the province are not going anywhere.
In...
These industries are growing. Why are men staying away?
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JUDY WOODRUFF: We turn now to an overlooked story: why some men are not pursuing certain types of jobs that are mainly held by women.
Our economics correspondent, Paul Solman, has the story. It's part of our...
New Democrats promise $15-per-day child care if elected
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The NDP would institute a $15-per-day daycare system for all Nova Scotia families if the party forms government following the May 30 election, Leader Gary Burrill announced Tuesday.
Burrill said in the first...
City's after-school daycares to exclude kids under 6
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Despite hopes that the province would grant an exception, children younger than six years old will officially be banned this fall from before-and-after-school programs run by the City of Ottawa.
In an email...
New funding for child-care spaces in Manitoba
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The Manitoba government took another step to shorten wait times and create more licensed child-care spaces by opening a new application intake for early learning and child care (ELCC) community-based capital...
Childcare sector tells politicians: ‘No rash promises’
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The largest childcare member organisations have joined forces in an open letter to all political parties, urging them not to make manifesto pledges that the sector will be unable to deliver.
Stay-at-home fathers do less childcare than working mothers, research shows
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Stay-at-home fathers remain relatively rare in Australia, and even these men spend slightly less time on childcare than their working wives, research shows.
A report by the Australian Institute of Family...
Stronger child-care supports would be the best Mother's Day gift
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Mother’s Day is coming. You should give your mom a nice gift. Most likely, she’s taking (or has taken) a big hit for “Team Saskatchewan.”
Kids are our future leaders, workers and citizens — everyone needs and...
