Felicity Gillespie is the director of Kindred Squared, a charitable foundation working to improve early years education
Crucial brain development in the first few years of life depends on the ‘serve and return’ interaction with parents and carers; baby talk, storytime and games. Sitting in front of a screen is one-way traffic: a child is only in receive mode. Maybe that’s why we are seeing the terrible impact of excessive screen time
Over a third of UK universities are in financial trouble, according to Universities UK, the group that represents many of them and is currently lobbying the government for a lifeline. Ministers say they are ‘looking at all options’, but vice chancellors will find the task of convincing the cash-strapped Treasury a difficult task: new data
