Building on the 2015 summer student intern project at the University of Bath, sigma is organising one of two workshops on how to use social media to attract students to your provision. This workshop will be held at Manchester Metropolitan University on Wednesday 11 May 2016. Registration is now open. The event will start at 11am… Continue Reading
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How to Use Social Media to Reach Your Students workshop: University of Greenwich 10 May 2016
Building on the 2015 summer student intern project at the University of Bath, sigma is organising one of two workshops on how to use social media to attract students to your provision. This workshop will be held at the University of Greenwich on Tuesday 10 May 2016. Registration is now open. The event will start at… Continue Reading
Tutor training resources
Following on from the successful series of tutor training workshops held over the past two years, Tony Croft and Michael Grove have pulled together a set of resources to support the on-going training requirements of mathematics and statistics support provisions. These resources will support the training of tutors new to offering mathematics and statistics support… Continue Reading
HELM Workbooks
HELM – Helping Engineering Learn Mathematics – was a major curriculum development project undertaken by a consortium of five English universities – Loughborough, Hull, Reading, Sunderland and Manchester – led by Loughborough, and funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) for the period October 2002 – September 2006. The project produced 50… Continue Reading
Save the date(s): How to Use Social Media to Reach Your Students workshop
Effective use of social media is a key way to access your students. Building on the 2015 summer student intern project at the University of Bath, sigma is organising two workshops on how to use social media to attract students to your provision. These workshops will be held at the University of Greenwich on Tuesday… Continue Reading
Promoting and Evaluating your Maths Support Service – 25 April 2016
The sigma Eastern England Hub is hosting a free networking event – ‘Promoting and Evaluating your Maths Support Service’ at the Silberrad Student Centre, University of Essex on Monday 25th April 2016 starting at 12:00. If you are involved in the provision of mathematics and statistics support in higher education, this event will give you… Continue Reading
sigma Midlands Hub event :Introduction to LaTeX – 21 March 2016
The sigma Midlands Hub is holding a free Introduction to LaTeX training day on Monday, March 21st 2016 at the University of Wolverhampton, City (i.e. Wolverhampton) campus. Note that this is the Monday before Easter. This free training day from 10.00 am to 4.30 pm is for those who wish to learn the basics of the document preparation system LaTeX. The course will… Continue Reading
Pocket Guide to Resources for Statistics Support Tutors
Your views requested! Ellen Marshall (University of Sheffield), Alun Owen (University of Worcester) and Jonathan Gillard (University of Cardiff) are engaged in a sigma-funded project to develop a “Pocket Guide to Resources for Statistics Support Tutors”. The aim is to produce a “pocket-sized” (A5) guide to give tutors working in statistics support quick access to… Continue Reading
Embedding Maths and Statistics support into Sports and Exercise Science degrees – 10 February 2016
The sigma North West and North Wales Hub and the Sports and Exercise Science Dept at LJMU are arranging the first sigma event focused on the Sports and Exercise Science community. The event will be held at Liverpool John Moores University on Wednesday 10th February, starting at 10am.The aims of the day are To acquaint the sigma… Continue Reading
sigma Eastern England Hub Mathematica meeting – 3 February 2016
On Wednesday 3rd of February at Essex University, Colchester there will be a presentation and discussion on the software Mathematica (To be held in PC Lab M, in Room 4S.2.4 .) The agenda for the day is as follows: · 12.00 – 12.30 Arrive. Sandwich lunch · 12.30 – 14..30 Presentation by Andrew Pollard of… Continue Reading