Media Advisory - World expert on impact of children's pre-school education to give talk at University of PEI

CHARLOTTETOWN, PEI, April 26, 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 University of Prince Edward Island, April 29.

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: Don and Marion McDougall Hall, University of Prince Edward Island

WHEN: Monday, April 29, 7 - 8:30 p.m.

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

Dr. Melhuish is in Prince Edward Island as part of a five-province tour sponsored by the Margaret and Wallace McCain Family Foundation.  His Charlottetown engagements are co-sponsored with the CHANCES Family Centre, the University of Prince Edward Island Faculty of Education and Holland College.

SOURCE: THE MARGARET AND WALLACE MCCAIN FAMILY FOUNDATION

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