The Children and Young People Bill will entitle three and four-year-olds to 600 hours of free early learning nursery education per year.
Instead two-thirds of it would fund free nursery education for two-year-olds from poorer homes and some of it would be given to councils to spend as they see fit.
Sarah Elizabeth Margaret Robinson, For services to Nursery Education.
Owing to the fact that participation in pre-school education is voluntary, ministers say they are now aiming to make sure 85% of youngsters in this age group take part in nursery education.
One of the organisation's key concerns is that the government is not providing enough money to fully fund the 15 hours per week free nursery education that it guarantees all three- and four-year-olds in England.
Although learning-by-discovery is being phased out of schools, the government seems prepared to accept that it is right for nursery pupils: ministers are said to have noted that in the successful education systems of Switzerland and Hungary, pupils start in the nursery with play-based education and then switch to traditional teaching at the age of six or seven.
In education, Mr Major introduced nursery vouchers, despite the resistance of Gillian Shephard, his own education minister.
The assembly had previously discussed nursery and pre-school education in June 2011.
Unison said it would ballot its members in the pre-school, nursery, primary and secondary education sectors on industrial action in response to the cuts.
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It had previously said a move to Hessle would help the council improve its special needs provision and allow for an additional nursery, post-16 education facilities and residential accommodation at the school.
According to Department for Education figures, 32% of men working in nursery and primary schools are in senior management, compared with 16% of women.
Non-teaching staff from the five education boards, such as caterers, cleaners, classroom assistants, nursery assistants, secretaries, technicians, caretakers and lollipop men and women are also likely to be out on strike.
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Not so much about Mr Jospin's education though, as a graduate of the Ecole Nationale d'Administration, nursery of France's top civil servants and politicians (including six of the past eight prime ministers), he should have known better.
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