NUFFIELD FOUNDATION
The Nuffield Foundation is one of the UK's best known charitable trusts which was established in 1943 by William Morris (Lord Nuffield), the founder of Morris Motors.
Lord Nuffield wanted his Foundation to 'advance social well being', particularly through research and practical experiment. The Foundation aims to achieve this by supporting work which will bring about improvements in society, and which is founded on careful reflection and informed by objective and reliable evidence.
The Foundation also sets up and runs projects of its own. One of the largest is The Nuffield Curriculum Centre. The Nuffield Foundation funded a major project in 1990 - Nuffield Design and Technology. Two years later, when the first National (UK) Curriculum Programmes of Study for D&T were sent back to the drawing board, the Nuffield team was in a position to feed the ideas and techniques that they had developed into the new Programme of Study. In this instance the Nuffield work provided the rationale and pedagogy for the National Curriculum. Most of the resources developed then are out of print, but they have been re-presented in a revised format to emphasise designing on the Nuffield Secondary D & T web site.
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