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The document highlights current challenges: insufficient statistical and data skills for everyday decision-making, low enjoyment and negative reputation, and assessment methods that do not match the subject’s practical investigative nature. Proposals prioritize real-world contexts, investigative-cycle literacy, cross-discipline connections, and more coherent progression through secondary to A-level.","The key recommendations for the UK statistics curriculum  \nAugust 2024  \nThe Royal Statistical Society (RSS) has a core focus on supporting public understanding and engagement around statistics and data, working to ensure that people – of all ages – can understand the data and statistics around them and are empowered to meaningfully engage with them.  \nAs part of this, the RSS Education Policy Advisory Group (EPAG) seeks to influence the education curriculum and education policy to improve the quality of the teaching, learning and assessment of statistics and data.  \nData and statistics are ubiquitous , and statistical and data literacy is essential to navigate everyday life as well as in a broad range of job and career pathways. School education must equip young people with the skills to navigate and thrive in the 21st century data landscape. Here, we set out key recommendations to improve statistics and data education in the UK curriculum. Many of our recommendations are UK-wide, while those relating to the GCSE and A-level system are relevant for England, Wales and Northern Ireland. You can read our full paper, with more detail, here.  \nThe need  \nCurrent challenges in the UK education system include students not leaving school with the statistical and data skills they need to navigate daily life; students not enjoying statistics and statistics having a negative reputation; and challenges around assessment – which does not reflect the practical nature of the subject. We have set out more information on the challenges we see in the system and our recommendations – about the mathematics education system more broadly – in our response to the government’s 2023 ‘Maths to 18’ proposals.  \nImproving the curriculum  \nLooking across the globe, other countries have been recognised for their approaches to statistics education, which emphasise engaging real-world applications, data analysis, and problem-solving. Two examples of this include the USA and New Zealand (NZ) . While acknowledging structural and societal differences between these countries and the UK, in this work we use guidance documents from these countries (USA Guidelines for Assessment and Instruction in Statistics Education, GAISE II, 2020 and NZ curriculum refresh, 2023) to make recommendations for the UK curriculum.  \nRecommendations  \n1. A stronger emphasis on real-world contexts, with engaging and cultural examples , in both teaching and assessment. Teachers should be supported to provide interesting and relevant examples.  \n2. Increased focus on statistical literacy skills and the investigative cycle (also known as the Problem, Plan, Data, Analysis, Conclusion – PPDAC – cycle) and greater use of information communication technologies (computing, for example using visualisation software); less focus on manual calculations.  \n3. Better connections between statistics and all other disciplines in the teaching of statistical concepts, data collection and analysis.  \n4. Assessment should use engaging real-world topics and include more focus on the investigative cycle and statistical literacy skills. At mid-secondary level (age 14 and above) assessment should involve the production of statistical reports that involve the development of quantitative reasoning skills; AI assisted software could be explored to assist in the prevention of plagiarism and to enable this form of assessment to be adopted.  \n5. Progression in the statistics curriculum is patchy and statistics has a poor subject identity , often leaving young people feeling unprepared when encountering statistics at university or later in life. If statistics was taught as a separate discipline, this would allow for a coherent curriculum enabling progression and recognition of the discipline , as well as allowing the linking of statistics to other disciplines. This should start at the secondary level (age 11+) . There are three ways this could be achieved within the GCSE system:  \na. 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