25 November 2020 RSS comments on Chancellor’s announcement regarding the Retail Price Index 21 October 2020 New partnership with The Alan Turing Institute and Royal Statistical Society to support Joint Biosecurity Centre COVID-19 response 24 September 2020 Royal Statistical Society to review lack of statistical evidence around diagnostic tests. 11 September 2020 Letter from the RSS Covid-19 Task Force to the Times regarding concerns over the government’s ‘moonshot’ testing plans. 18 August 2020 RSS comments on announcement of OSR review into exam statistical models.
14 August 2020 RSS letter to the Ed Humpherson - request for a review of the models and processes used by qualifications regulators
7 August 2020 Letter from the RSS Covid-19 Task Force to the Guardian regarding data transparency
23 July 2020 Professional standards to be set for data science The RSS along with other learned societies is establishing industry-wide professional standards for data science
28 April 2020 The Royal Statistical Society appoints new Chief Executive Announcement of the appointment of Stian Westlake as the new RSS Chief Executive
23 December 2019 The Royal Statistical Society announces its Statistics of the Decade
19 December 2019 The Royal Statistical Society announces its Statistics of the Year for 2019
6 August 2019 The Royal Statistical Society comments on the appointment of the new National Statistician Hetan Shah comments on the appointment of the new National Statistician
11 July 2019 Winners announced at the 2019 RSS Statistical Excellence Awards The RSS celebrated the fantastic work that had been done with statistics and data in 2018. Watch the awards ceremony here.
11 April 2019 Gender pay gap reporting is great in principle but ‘flawed in practice’ says Royal Statistical Society, as it unveils its 10 key recommendations The RSS’s recommendations to improve gender pay gap reporting
6 March 2019 RSS response to dame Shirley Pearce teaching excellence framework review (PDF) Royal Statistical Society: “Thousands of students are being misled by statistically unreliable and untrustworthy university rankings system”.
17 January 2019 RPI Response (PDF) The RSS responds to the House of Lords report on ‘Measuring Inflation’.
10 January 2019 Launch Of Journalism And Official Statistics Awards (PDF) Nominations for 2019 are open.
18 December 2018 Statistics Of The Year Announcement (PDF) The RSS announces 2018’s Statistics of the Year.
20 October 2018 Zachary Macauley Plaque (PDF) The RSS is pleased to unveil a plaque in London, UK commemorating abolitionist and statistician Zachary Macaulay.
19 December 2017 RSS welcomes first estimates of new household cost indices (PDF) The Office for National Statistics (ONS) today published its first preliminary estimates for the experimental Household Cost Indices (HCIs), in a move welcomed by the RSS.
18 December 2017 The Royal Statistical Society announces Statistic Of The Year 2017 (PDF) The Royal Statistical Society (RSS) is pleased to unveil its first ever UK Statistic of the Year and International Statistic of the Year, for 2017. Judges also commended five other runners up.
22 November 2017 The Royal Statistical Society (RSS) comments on the announcement in the budget of the creation of a new centre for data ethics and innovation” (PDF)
22 November 2017 The Royal Statistical Society comments on the Chancellor Budget Announcement for maths education (PDF) The Royal Statistical Society welcomes the Chancellor's announcement, in today's Budget, of a £600 incentive for schools for each student who decides to take up Maths or Further Maths A-levels or Core Maths, as recommended in the Smith Review.
19 October 2017 RSS and ICCA law guide to be launched tomorrow for European statistics day (PDF) The Royal Statistical Society (RSS) and the Inns of Court College of Advocacy (ICCA) have created a joint guide on statistics and probability for advocates to aid their understanding in the use of statistical evidence in courts and tribunals.
20 July 2017 The Royal Statistical Society welcomes the smith review on post-16 maths education (PDF) The Royal Statistical Society welcomes the publication of the report of Professor Sir Adrian Smith’s review of post-16 mathematics. The RSS is encouraged by the immediate response from the Government, and calls for prompt consideration of further, substantial recommendations.
15 June 2017 Press release on ONS decision to end pre-release access to official statistics (PDF) Following a successful RSS campaign, we welcome the Office for National Statistics’ decision to end pre-release access to the statistics they produce.
20 January 2017 RSS comments on provisional appointment of new UKSA chair (PDF) The RSS comments on the provisional appointment of Sir David Norgrove as the new Chair of the UK Statistics Authority.