The funding will help the Scottish Government meet its commitment of recruiting an extra 435 graduates – one in every setting in a deprived area, by 2018.
Graduates will either be a teacher with early years expertise or a graduate practitioner with a BA Childhood Practice award.
The investment comes ahead of the move from 600 to 1,140 free childcare hours for every three- and four-year-old and deprived two-year-olds in Scotland by 2020.
Making the announcement while visiting the nursery at Gorebridge Primary School in Midlothian, the First Minister said, ‘Increasing the number of teachers and graduates in nurseries is absolutely crucial to tackling the attainment gap right from the start of a child’s education.
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