A new Government campaign is trying to attract more men into the early years sector to remedy the traditional shortfall. Here, nursery teacher Stephen Glen-Lee explains the satisfaction he gets from his job, while students can enter our essay competition by coming up with ideas for ways to make working with young children more appealing to men
Education was a means to an end in our home; my career high was going to work in a supermarket. My dad was a miner in County Durham, and my mum an artist. I was born in 1971 and brought up in the mining new town of Peterlee, at the time of the strikes. It was obvious that there wasn't a huge future in mining.
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