“…As far as the authors are aware, the first formal mathematics support centre was established at Central Queensland University in 1984 (Dzator & Dzator, 2020). In the United Kingdom, early provision was the MathsPlus centre at Edinburgh Napier University (then known as Napier Technical College) which opened in 1988 (Ahmed et al, 2018) and the BP Mathematics Centre at Coventry University (then known as Coventry Polytechnic) established in 1991 (Lawson, 2021). In 2005, the importance of mathematics support initiatives was recognised by the Higher Education Funding Council for England 2 leading to the establishment, by Loughborough and Coventry Universities, of sigma 3 as a Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning focusing on universitywide mathematics and statistics support.…”