The Kuwait - International Conference of Statistics took place on the 8 March 2011 at Kuwait University, titled "Contemporary Challenges in Statistics and Operations Research" the event was inaugurated by Dr Modhi Al-Humoud, the Kuwait Minister of Education and Higher Education.

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Professor Neville Davies from the RSSCSE attended the event and gave a talk entitled "Developments for Improving Collaborative Teaching and Learning in Statistics". You can view a summary of the talk as a Word document or PDF below, there is also a PDF copy of the PowerPoint slides.

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• Developments for Improving Collaborative Teaching and Learning in Statistics (DOC)
• Developments for Improving Collaborative Teaching and Learning in Statistics (PDF)

The Royal Statistical Society Centre for Statistical Education ran a series of activities to mark the beginning of the Royal Statistical Society’s 10-year statistical literacy campaign, getstats.

The event ran from Wednesday 20 - Wednesday 27 October 2010, with two days in London at the RSS and four in Plymouth at the RSSCSE. The launch of the campaign on World Statistics Day, 20 October, was marked by a read paper to the Society by Chris Wild, Maxine Pfannkuch, Matt Regan (University of Auckland, NZ) and Nicholas Horton (Smith College, USA). Entitled 'Towards More Accessible Conceptions of Statistical Inference' you can download a proof copy here.

You can now download a report of the week's activities here. 

For copies of the flyer for each day, with each day's programme, please click 'read more' below.

"Thought provoking,  interesting and enjoyable, an excellent week!"

To mark the occasion of the relocation of the Royal Statistical Society Centre for Statistical Education (RSSCSE) to the University of Plymouth in August, the RSSCSE and the University hosted a series of statistical education workshops during November 2009. These were for discussing ways to improve statistical education in the workplace, schools and Higher Education - and there was one day concerned with software for improving statistical education. The main launch celebration was on the afternoon of Friday 20 November. This was jointly organised by the RSS General Applications Section (GAS) and the RSS South West Local Group.

For information on, and videos of the presentations on the relaunch afternoon, summaries of the four days of workshops, individual resources and additional notes please click 'read more' below.

Improvement in statistical education in the workplace

"A most informative day. If only we could be at four places at the same time"

Summary 

On day one the workshops were led by Isaac Newton, the lead trainer for Minitab, Nicola Tilt, Senior Statistician and head of the Statistics Training Programme in Europe for Proctor and Gamble, Shirley Coleman, Head of the Industrial Statistics Research Unit, Newcastle University and Trevor Lewis, statistics consultant and Chair of the RSS PSC. There was general agreement that a key way to engage employers and employees with statistics is through addressing the many misconceptions that they have about the subject, by carrying out the training through ‘knowing your audience’ and proceeding at a pace that is suitable for each trainee. It is very important to emphasise the need for continuing professional development even at the most basic level of training in statistics, for example, by using informal inference from data and graphical presentations.