It’s interesting to note that the UNICEF research paper (it seems odd to call something 52 pages long a “report card”) lacks a clear Early Years focus. While it talks in Dimension 3 about Beyond Basic Skills and Transition to Employment it also admits, a little further down that, while “childcare must be regarded as a major factor in children’s educational well-being,” it goes on to say that “adequate and comparable data are not available to permit the quality and availability of child care in different countries to be included in this overview.”
I wonder why they overlooked reports such as the Early Years and Childcare International Evidence Project (a series of reports of which this link is just to one and this link is to the summary)?
nicktomjoe 