The coming of age of statistical education

This paper outlines developments in statistical education in the period preceding the formation of the<br>International Association for Statistical Education (IASE) 1991, and takes a tentative look at the future.<br>The first section reviews the history of the ISI's Statistical Education Committee from its setting up in<br>1948 to the birth of the IASE in 1991. The second section attempts to identify some of the underlying<br>factors contributing to the rapid growth of interest in statistical education during the last two decades or<br>so. The third section gives a personal view of some of the issues the IASE may have to confront during its<br>first few years of existence.