Media Advisory - World expert on impact of children's pre-school education to give talk at IWK Health Center

HALIFAX, April 29, 2013 /CNW/ - The principle researcher for the largest study ever conducted on the impact of preschool education on children gives a free public lecture at the O.E. Smith Auditorium, May 2.

For the past 16 years Dr. Edward Melhuish has followed 4,000 children in the UK and Northern Ireland, matching their preschool experiences to their later cognitive, language and behavioral development.  He regularly meets with governments around the world, advising them on programs that improve children's lives.

EVENT DETAILS

WHAT: Free public lecture by Dr. Edward Melhuish, Professor of Human Development at Birkbeck, University of London.

WHERE: O.E. Smith Auditorium, IWK Health Center, 5850 University Avenue, Halifax  (http://goo.gl/maps/SJXpn)

WHEN: Thursday, May 2, 4 - 6 p.m.

MORE INFORMATION: Dr. Melhuish's studies are available at: http://www.ioe.ac.uk/research/153.html.

Dr. Melhuish is in Nova Scotia as part of a five-province tour sponsored by the Margaret and Wallace McCain Family Foundation.  His Halifax engagements are co-sponsored with the IWK Health Center and the Nova Scotia Department of Education & Early Childhood Development.

SOURCE: The Margaret and Wallace McCain Family Foundation

Or to arrange interviews please contact:

Kerry McCuaig:  E-mail: [email protected]   Phone:  [phone].

Chad Lucas, Communications Advisor, NS Department Education & Early Childhood Development: E-mail: [email protected]   Phone: [phone]