Berenice Nyland
Berenice Nyland is an adjunct professor at RMIT. She has been a practitioner and researcher in early childhood education and care for many years. Her research interests are language and the arts in early childhood, comparative education, children and worker rights.
Berenice's recent articles
14 January 2024
Labor MP Josh Burns says no ceasefire in Gaza
Josh Burns, Labor MP for Macnamara, in Victoria, has been visiting Israel. During this visit he did not even follow his own partys weak calls for a ceasefire. He said there must not be a ceasefire in Gaza.
27 April 2022
Childcare: Budgets and an Election
In brief, childcare, especially long day care, has become highly lucrative for big business. About 80% of revenue comes from the Australian taxpayers. This corporate model means that 100s of millions are distributed to share-holders each year and a number of the largest companies pay no tax.
20 May 2021
Early childhood education, access and equity: lessons from China
As the much-touted childcare funding in the federal budget appears increasingly as an announcement, rather than a commitment, perhaps we should be looking to China to start developing long-term strategies to reform Australias early childhood education and care (ECEC) system.
2 May 2021
Childcare and the federal budget: what about the childcare workforce?
Changes to childcare in its role as a workforce support are expected to be made in the next federal budget. Childcare is more than workforce support and without reforming the present market-driven system it is unlikely recommended changes will deliver anything except minimal short-term relief to an ailing system.