Nuffield is delighted to announce that Mr Andrew Dilnot CBE is to become one of its Trustees. Mr Dilnot is Principal of St Hugh’s College, Oxford University and a former Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
New Trustee
A newly-launched campaign aims to improve the understanding and use of statistics by government, politicians, companies, advertisers and the mass media. Straight Statistics is funded by Nuffield and was established by journalists and statisticians to restore public confidence in statistics by exposing bad and promoting good practice. More
A challenge to damned lies
After long debate, in April 2009 family courts in England and Wales were granted discretion to admit the press on a case by case basis. A new paper from the University of Oxford, 'Openness and transparency in family courts: Messages from other jurisdictions' takes a closer look at this decision in comparison to legislative experiences elsewhere.
Opening Family Courts
The largest independent review of education and training for 14-19 year olds in England and Wales since the Crowther Report in 1959 has published its report. A Directorate led by Professor Richard Pring from the University of Oxford carried out this Nuffield-funded review of all aspects of 14-19 education and training. More
What counts as an educated 19 year old these days?
