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13 September 2011
Getting governments moving on obesity
Manual for monitoring children's exposure to unhealthy food and drink promotions launches worldwide
Interactive TV commercials and child-friendly websites targeted alongside traditional...
09 September 2011
The best days of your life?
School time is an important factor in young people’s development and achievement. Two recent publications explore this relationship by looking at changes in schooling over time. Both are based on research...
05 September 2011
Nuffield Science Bursary student Hannah Blyth helped astronomers discover over 20 new asteroids and a comet in the process of breaking up whilst on her summer placement at the University of Glamorgan. One of the asteroids, which is more than 300...
26 August 2011
In his attempt to probe for deeper causes of the recent disturbances across England, journalist Warwick Mansell revisits reports from the Engaging Youth Enquiry, undertaken by the Rathbone Trust as part of the Nuffield Review of 14-19 Education...
17 August 2011
Carol Vorderman’s report into mathematics education makes a series of recommendations for mathematics education, among them that everyone should study some form of mathematics until the age of 18. The report, A world-class mathematics...
15 August 2011
Solidarity in bioethics has received increasing attention but it is often unclear what the concept means.
Together with the Arts and Humanities Research Council, we have funded the Nuffield Council on Bioethics to develop a new working...
10 August 2011
Over one thousand students across the UK are currently gaining professional experience of scientific research though their Nuffield Science Bursary placements.
Students selected for a bursary carry out research projects in science, technology,...
04 August 2011
The summer edition of our newsletter is now available to download.
Issue 18 includes the latest from the evaluation of the Family Drug and Alcohol Court (FDAC), details of our response to the Government's National Curriculum Review and...
22 July 2011
In a relatively small portion of all separation and divorce cases, children reject a parent. How and why does this happen? How do the courts respond to these cases, which are characterised by high levels of conflict between parents, and what...
20 July 2011
New research published by the Institute for Fiscal Studies, and funded by the Nuffield Foundation, finds little or no evidence that marriage itself has any effect on children’s social or cognitive development.
This calls into...
11 July 2011
A grant from the Nuffield Foundation was the starting point for a research study showing that giving hospitals greater autonomy may not lead to enhanced productivity and performance.
Academics at the Centre for Health Economics at the University...
05 July 2011
A new CPD resource is available for teachers of community languages who wish to incorporate a focus on arts based creativity (stories, drama, art works, multimedia) into their teaching approach.
The resource will also be useful for teachers...
05 July 2011
This week the Commission on Funding of Care and Support, led by Nuffield Foundation Trustee Andrew Dilnot, has recommended capping the costs and increasing the means-tested threshold of adult social care.
Response from government has been...
30 June 2011
A large-scale study of select committee influence by UCL's Constitution Unit has found that a third of committee recommendations calling for significant policy change are implemented by government.
Funded by the Foundation, the study also...
27 June 2011
A study into government commissioning of social research has concluded that any of the three procurement methods currently used can be successful, provided best practice is utilised. It also found that procurement method does not ...
27 June 2011
The Nuffield Foundation spent £9.6 million on its charitable activities during 2010.
Of this, £2.4 million was spent on education projects, including grants for research and innovation and curriculum development.
A...
22 June 2011
Nuffield Foundation Education Fellow Alom Shaha examines how and why practical lessons are used in school science in this thought-provoking article on the Guardian science blog.
He argues that practical lessons are not, as many believe,...
13 June 2011
Of the 330,000 students studying university courses that require mathematical knowledge beyond GCSE level, 210,000 of them (64%) do not have the required skills, causing problems for both students and universities.
These findings are...
09 June 2011
A new book exploring the mobility and transparency of vocational and education training (VET) across Europe will receive its official launch at the Nuffield Foundation tomorrow.
Knowledge, Skills and Competence in the European Labour...
08 June 2011
Barbara Frances Wootton, nee Adam (Baroness Wootton of Abinger) was one of the extraordinary public figures of the twentieth century. A pioneer in fields relating to economic planning, social science and evidence-informed public policy, her...
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