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Nuffield|ˈnʌfiːld|
The name of William Richard Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield (1877–1963), founder of Morris Motors Ltd., used attrib. in Nuffield Foundation, a charitable trust set up by him to finance various schemes and organizations; hence spec. in Educ., used attrib. and absol. in connection with the teaching methods and syllabuses advocated by the Nuffield Foundation since 1964, designed esp. for primary school level in mathematics, science, and French with the object of stimulating interest and individual thinking.
1943Times 13 Feb. 4/4 Lord Nuffield has intimated his intention of founding forthwith a charitable trust, which will be known as ‘The Nuffield Foundation’. 1946Nuffield Foundation First Report 9 Early in 1943 Lord Nuffield established the Nuffield Foundation as a charitable trust and endowed it with Ordinary Stock Units in Morris Motors Ltd., to the value of {pstlg}10,000,000. 1947Rep. Survey Comm. Old People i. 1 The trustees of the Nuffield Foundation. 1952C. P. Blacker Eugenics 307 Some voluntary organizations, such as those embodied in the Nuffield Foundation, have performed semi-official functions, such as the regional hospital surveys conducted for the Ministry of Health during the war. 1964Times Educ. Suppl. 21 Aug. 249/4 If we do get new syllabuses for our nationwide school examinations they will probably be Nuffield ones. Ibid. 20 Nov. 932/5 Members of the Nuffield teams will act as examiners. 1971Where Nov. 332/1 The sort of problem, taken from the Nuffield materials, young secondary children would soon get to work on. 1972E. Elias Learning & Playing v. 81 Your child's teacher may well be using the Nuffield ‘guides’, a series of booklets stressing..how to teach. Ibid. vii. 128 Like Nuffield maths..Nuffield science is being introduced into more and more junior schools. Ibid. 129 Nuffield French has spread to schools all over the country. 1975Physics Bull. Dec. 532/3 When a school starts taking Nuffield (other than Nuffield physical science) it never appears to give up doing so. |