The 4th Scottish Maths Support Network meeting 2011

Abstract

This year the annual meeting of the Scottish Maths Support network (SMSN) was held at the University of Strathclyde on Friday 9 September. Almost all Scottish universities were represented along with one attendee from Ireland. The meeting was organised by the SMSN committee and was sponsored by the MSOR Network. The aim of these annual meetings is to improve awareness of the progress of the Mathematics Support provision at the various institutions, and also to keep up-to-date with current thinking on the running of such support systems. A brief overview of each presentation has been summarised.

Community perspectives of mathematics and statistics support in higher education: the role of the staff member

“…A national steering committee is now overseeing the future work of this network, and contains wide representation from across the higher education sector. This model for a practitioner network has proved particularly successful in both Ireland (including Northern Ireland) and Scotland with the active and visible Irish Mathematics Learning Support Network (Mac an Bhaird, 2011) and the Scottish Mathematics Support Network (Ahmed et al, 2011), members from which have been particularly active in working with colleagues on mathematics and statistics support activities in England and Wales.…”