The Teaching Statistics Trust (TST) was established in 1978 as a charitable trust:

The Lancaster Postgraduate Statistics Centre has the core aim of promoting excellence in teaching statistics to postgraduates across a range of disciplines.

The Teaching Statistics Trust is funding a 1-year research project to investigate how well qualified new teacher trainees are in statistics knowledge and pedagogy for secondary education.

The aims are to:

1. survey the extent and form of UK:
   • PGCE Mathematics/MEC courses;
   • PGCE courses in other relevant subjects;
   • BEd courses with respect to the delivery of statistics content and pedagogy.
2. survey a range of newly qualified teachers, trainee teachers and education lecturers about their attitudes to and knowledge of teaching statistics;

The Problem Solving Approach

Classroom resources for teaching using a statistical problem solving approach
 
In 2005 and 2006 the Royal Statistical Society Centre for Statistical Education undertook a review of the statistics and data handling content of GCSE  to determine what should be retained as part of the core curriculum for mathematics and what may be beneficially seeded for delivery through other subjects, particularly science.