Nuffield Foundation response to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills Green Paper: Fulfilling our potential: teaching excellence, social mobility and student choice

By Nuffield Foundation

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We have set out our views in a way which aligns as closely as possible with two of the main strands of the consultation: social mobility and widening participation; and reducing complexity and bureaucracy in research funding.

We improve people’s lives by funding research that informs social policy, primarily in Education, Welfare and Justice. We also fund student programmes that give young people skills and confidence in science and research.

We offer our grant-holders the freedom to frame questions and enable new thinking. Our research must stand up to rigorous academic scrutiny, but we understand that to be successful in effecting change, it also needs to be relevant to people’s experience.

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