Nuffield Curriculum Centre

Classics, 1966 to the present

Cambridge School Classics Project
The Cambridge School Classics Project (CSCP) was set up in 1966 under a joint initiative by the University of Cambridge Faculties of Classics and Education in response to a growing crisis in classics teaching. CSCP was based at Cambridge and was generously funded by the Schools Council and the Nuffield Foundation. The Nuffield/ Cambridge Latin project used some of the same communicative teaching methods devised for modern languages.

Enduring success
The CSCP project continues today and proudly describes itself on its web site as the only Nuffield project from the 1960s still running under its original constitution. The nature of its work, however, has changed considerably over the intervening 30 years.

e-learning
With the Cambridge Latin Course now firmly established and in its fourth edition, much of the CSCP's work now focuses on providing support for classics teachers and developing links with independent learners and schools with no classics teachers. A major grant from the DfES has been used to developed e-learning resources.

See Cambridge School Classics Project (CSCP)