The sigma South West & South Wales Hub is hosting a meeting on ‘Mathematical literacy‘ at the University of Exeter on Tuesday 12th July 2016 from 10:30 – 16:00. The meeting is suitable for any member of staff or postgraduate tutor involved in mathematics or statistics teaching or support in higher education. There is no charge for attending… Continue Reading
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Beyond mathcentre: electronic resources for maths assessment and support – 22nd January 2016
The sigma South West & South Wales Hub is hosting a meeting on ‘Beyond mathcentre: electronic resources for maths assessment and support‘ at the Treforest Campus of the University of South Wales on Friday 22nd January 2016 from 10:30 – 16:00. This meeting will focus on electronic resources for maths assessment and support beyond the well known mathcentre.… Continue Reading
sigma SW&SW Tutor Training – 2 October 2015
Place: Cardiff University Date: Friday 2nd October 2015 Start time: 10:30 End Time: 15:30 This free sigma Network Tutor Training event is for mathematics and statistics support centres in the South West and South Wales, and nearby regions, who wish to access sigma training for their tutors. It will be held at Cardiff University on… Continue Reading
Practical use of R by blind people – Workshop: 10 July
The University of Bath is hosting a workshop on Practical use of R by blind people, on Friday10th July. The workshop will show how a blind user can make use of R in its console/terminal modes, how we can improve its use through the BrailleR add-on package, and how a blind user could benefit by… Continue Reading
sigma-sw regional hub meeting: Statistics for non-statisticians – 7 July 2015
The sigma South West & South Wales Hub is hosting a meeting on ‘Statistics for non-statisticians‘ at the University of Bath on Tuesday 7th July 2015 from 10:30 – 16:00. Those with a strong quantitative background are often approached to give advice on statistical problems, even though they may have no formal training in statistics. This workshop aims… Continue Reading
sigma SW&SW hub meeting: Embedding and sustaining mathematics support – 23 January 2015
The sigma South West and South Wales Hub is holding an event on Embedding and sustaining mathematics support, at the University of Bath on Friday 23rd January 2015 from 11am-4pm. The main focus of the meeting is to consider how the community of mathematics and statistics support practitioners may best embed and sustain mathematics support… Continue Reading
sigma SE and SW&SW Tutor Training event – 15 October 2014
Place: University of Portsmouth Date: Wednesday 15th October 2014 Registration: 10:30 End Time: 16:00 This sigma Network Tutor Training event is for mathematics and statistics support centres in the South East, South West and South Wales who wish to access sigma training for their tutors. It will be held at the University of Portsmouth on… Continue Reading
Graduate numeracy tests – 16 July 2014
sigma-sw regional hub meeting – Graduate numeracy tests Place: University of Bath, Bath Date: Wednesday 16th July 2014 Registration: 11:00 End Time: 16:00 The main focus of the meeting is to consider how mathematics support centres may assist students with improving their numeracy when their end goal is to improve performance on graduate numeracy tests. Such tests are used in… Continue Reading
Ideas exchange and development : sigma South West Hub – 26 March 2014
Place: University of the West of England, Frenchay Campus Arrival: 11:00 am End time : 16:00 The main purpose of this first meeting of 2013/14 is to re-establish links between maths support centres and practitioners in the… Continue Reading
South West & South Wales News Section
This is the area where you will find news, events & updates for the South West & South Wales SIGMA hub. You can check back for details, or sign up to our JISCMail list. Contact details for this hub can be found here.