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22 May 2013
Household wealth in Great Britain amounts to £5.5 trillion, even excluding pension rights – four times national income. It is far more unequally distributed than incomes or earnings.
Official figures show that the top tenth of households...
20 May 2013
The Government’s proposed reforms to the four largest public service pension schemes will reduce the average value of the pension benefit for members of these schemes by more than a third, and reduce long-term government expenditure on...
16 May 2013
The Conversation, a new journalism project that brings together academics and journalists to produce news, analysis and commentary for the public, has launched in the UK today.
It has already reshaped the media landscape in its two years in...
10 May 2013
New research published today by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), and funded by the Nuffield Foundation, provides fresh evidence on the extent to which the difference in educational outcomes between children born at different times of the year...
02 May 2013
Eight leading charities are urging the Government to rethink care and the way in which the most vulnerable children and families who encounter the care system are treated in England. The call to base decisions on need and not legal status comes...
29 April 2013
A new service to give free access to practical, evidence-based guidance on vulnerable witnesses and defendants has been launched by the Advocacy Training Council.
The Advocate's Gateway provides eight toolkits that set out the common problems...
29 April 2013
A study carried out by experts from the University of Birmingham and Cardiff University found that women refugees living in the UK experienced worse physical and emotional health than men.
The report, funded by The Nuffield Foundation and entitled...
22 April 2013
We note with sadness the death of Kathleen Hart, a leading mathematics educator who played an important part in several Nuffield mathematics projects.
Kath began her career as a secondary school teacher, and went on to become a teacher trainer, a...
17 April 2013
The Nuffield Council on Bioethics has today published a report that says parents of donor-conceived children should be the ones to decide what to tell their children about their conception, but that they need more support in making and following...
08 April 2013
On 28 March 1913, bicycle maker William Morris, later Lord Nuffield and the Foundation's benefactor, produced his first car in a newly built factory at the former Oxford Military College in Cowley, Oxford. The Morris was dubbed "Bullnose...
02 April 2013
A new evaluation of 'one-stop-shop' services for women offenders has concluded that although they provide the holistic approach necessary for for the complex needs of low risk women offenders, they have not become part of mainstream...
19 March 2013
A new report published by the IPPR and funded by the Nuffield Foundation provides a critical assessment of the options for reforming wealth taxes in the UK. It draws on new analysis using the IPPR wealth tax model and comparative analysis of...
18 March 2013
Congratulations to Nuffield Research Placement students Emily O’Regan and Fred Turner for winning UK Scientist of the Year and UK Engineer of the Year at the National Science and Engineering Competition Award Ceremony at London’s ExCel...
13 March 2013
Research conducted by Cardiff University’s Law School and funded by the Foundation shows that the efficiency of the system dealing with international child abduction to England and Wales may be under threat.
The 1980 Hague Convention on the...
08 March 2013
Since April 2010 the age at which women can first receive a state pension has been rising from 60. It is currently at 61 years and 5 months and is due to rise to 66 by 2020.
So far this change, first legislated in 1995, has had a strong effect in...
27 February 2013
Pupils excluded from school at 12 are four times as likely as other children to be jailed as adults, a new study funded by the Foundation shows.
Researchers found that boys, children living in single parent families, and those from the poorest...
21 February 2013
A new book published today sheds light on teaching key ideas in mathematics to 9- to 19-year-olds.
Based on a research synthesis funded by the Nuffield Foundation, Key Ideas in Teaching Mathematics shows how students learn, why they sometimes get...
19 February 2013
According to the latest Workplace Employment Relations Study, the recession has had a profound impact on Britain's workplaces. In many workplaces, managers have responded with changes in their staffing practices, with one third (33%) of...
19 February 2013
The findings from the British Chinese Adoption Study, funded by the Nuffield Foundation, have been published by the British Association for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF) in a new book, Adversity, Adoption and Afterwards: A midlife follow-up study of...
08 February 2013
Pupils with the most acute special educational needs (SEN) spend over a quarter of their week away from their class, teacher and peers, according to new research from the Institute of Education (IOE) and funded by the Nuffield Foundation. This...
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