Nuffield Advanced Chemistry (Fourth Edition)
The Nuffield Advanced Chemistry course was first published in 1970, revised in 1984 and restructured for a third edition in 1994. The core publications of the fourth edition were the Students' Book and the Teachers' Guide for the two years of the course. They were supported by a Book of Data which students needed to consult…
Continuing Mathematics Project
The Continuing Mathematics Project (CMP), published by Longman in the 1970s, was conceived as a response to the problem of insufficiently numerate students who were studying beyond '0' level. The Dainton Report recommended that " ... normally all pupils should study mathematics until they leave school ...".…
Revised Nuffield Advanced Chemistry
In Revised Nuffield Advanced Chemistry, the basic aims and ideas of the first edition, the outline of the topics, and much of the detail remained the same. However, since the publication of the first edition there had been many developments in chemistry. New discoveries had been made; industrial processes had advanced; there had…
Nuffield Advanced Science: Book of Data
The Nuffield Advanced Science project published a Book of Data. This was designed for reference during the physical science, chemistry and physics courses. This book was intensively used during the physical science course and students had access to the data in all examinations. The book was also important to the chemistry course…
Revised Nuffield Advanced Physics
The Nuffield Foundation revised and republished Nuffield Advanced Physics in 1985. The original carefully-thought-through structure of the course was retained but there were significant changes in the form of the published resources. The project decided to include all the topics in the core A-level syllabus produced by an inter-board…
4/5- Publication year: 1980 - 1989
Revised Nuffield Advanced Biology
These publications are from the Nuffield Foundation. When Nuffield Advanced Biology was revised and republished in 1985 there was a major change in the form and content of the books. The original study guide was split into two volumes and was expanded in scope with a substantial amount of descriptive text in addition to the collection…
Revised Nuffield Advanced Science: Chemistry (Third Edition)
The Nuffield Advanced Chemistry course was first published in 1970 and was revised, so this was the third edition of a successful course. In this third edition there was just one students' book for the whole course and one teachers' guide. These were supported by a book of data that students were expected to consult…
Nuffield Working with Science
Nuffield Working with Science was developed in the 1970s to meet the needs of ‘the new sixth former’ in schools and colleges. The programme offered teachers a variety of resources as a basis for courses aimed at students staying on in education after the age of 16 for a one-year course. Students who used the materials,…
Nuffield Advanced Science: Chemistry
The Nuffield Advanced Chemistry team set out to devise a course based on principles of the subject that were regarded as being of fundamental importance at the time. The authors adopted a teaching approach aimed at developing imaginative thinking on the part of students. The implications of this had been spelled out in detail in…
Nuffield Advanced Mathematics
This Nuffield Foundation Project was a collaboration which drew on the expertise of the Supported Self Study Unit in Northumberland, the Mechanics in Action project in Manchester, teachers in several Local Authorities as well as the insights of team members at the King’s College London and the West Sussex Institute of Higher…