This is the submission from the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) to the Communications and Digital Committee’s inquiry into Media literacy. Our submission seeks to highlight the importance of statistical and data literacy as part of media literacy. Statistics and data are used widely in the media, to back up points or make claims. The ability to distinguish between trustworthy information and misinformation is key. Media literacy, as it relates to statistical and data literacy, is essential to allow people to navigate daily life, be informed citizens and thrive in this data-driven era. 
 

This is the submission from the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) to the Education Committee’s inquiry into Further Education and Skills. We highlight the importance of statistics and data skills to a wide range of job and career pathways, and recommend improvements to how statistics and data are taught in the curriculum to better reflect how skills are used in work and university and equip students with the skills they need.

This is the RSS response to the OCR’s feedback survey about their report ‘Striking the balance: a review of the 11-16 curriculum and assessment in England’.

Submission to the Department for Education Curriculum and Assessment Review call for evidence, outlining some recommendations for improving the content, engagement and attainment for maths education in the UK. 

Response in suppport of the Royal Society's mathematics curriculum recommendations, published as part of its Maths Futures Programme.

Letter to Helen Hayes, new chair of the Education Committee, welcoming the recently launched curriculum review and stressing the need to equip young people with the relevant data skills, as well as proposing several incentives to increase the number of qualified maths teachers.  

Key recommendations for improving the statistics curriculum in the UK, from the RSS Education Policy Advisory Group (EPAG).

Summary of the RSS Education Policy Advisory Group (EPAG)'s recommendations for improving the statistics curriculum in the UK.

The RSS has produced a guide to help people think critically about the figures they encounter on social media

The 2024 Maths Manifesto, published jointly by the Council for Mathematical Sciences and the Academy for the Mathematical Sciences (AcadMathSci) in the run up to a likely general election in 2024. The Manifesto outlines key areas that should be focus for generating innovation and improvement within the mathematical sciences in the UK, as well suggestions for policy makers.

The RSS writes to Bridget Phillipson to share the findings of its resent response to the Prime Minister's Maths to 18 proposals, and to open discussions on how to create a successful education policy.

Response to the Education Select Committee call for evidence: The Impact of Covid-19 on education and children's services inquiry