Welcome to the RSSCSE

MSOR - Induction Course for New Lecturers

Maths, Stats & OR Network Induction Course for New Lecturers

Date: 16/17 September 2010

Location: School of Mathematics, University of Birmingham

The Maths, Stats & OR Network is pleased to announce that it will once again be running its two-day Induction Course for lecturers new to teaching Mathematics and Statistics within Higher Education. The Induction Course has been running since 2001, and over 200 new academic members of staff have benefited from attending in this time. In the past, attendance has been recognised as contributing towards some introductory institutional programmes in learning and teaching for new staff (certificated or otherwise and depending on institution).

Sessions will cover approaches to teaching mathematics including lectures and example classes, as well as using technology to enhance education and an introduction to education research.

Further details can be found at: http://mathstore.ac.uk/

Lancaster Postgraduate Statistics Centre

The RSSCSE is now working with The Lancaster Postgraduate Statistics Centre. The Centre has the core aim of promoting excellence in teaching statistics to postgraduates across a range of disciplines.

To find out more you can view their web site or click the link below to learn more.

Teachers of statistics: Support for Statistical Education interactive workshops and events.

The Trustees of the journal Teaching Statistics are offering a number of bursaries to teachers, schools and/or other educational organisations, for colleagues who wish to:

attend and/or participate in teaching statistics professional development days.

RSSCSE Director interview

View on the Royal Statistical Society YouTube channel the interview the Director of the RSSCSE gave to Professor Adrian Bowman at the 175th anniversary conference at Edinburgh in September 2009.

In it he explains the aims and role of the Centre and highlights some of its current activities. These include school-level projects, university-level pedagogic developments and work on train-the-trainers courses in Africa. He also briefly explains RSSCSE strategy and explains a possible new direction for the international CensusAtSchool project.

You can view the Royal Statistical Society YouTube channel using the link below to go direct to the interview please click here.

http://www.youtube.com/RoyalStatSoc

Statistical Awareness

Here you will find our proposals for the extent, level and form of awareness and knowledge of statistics that every citizen should have. Implicit in the proposals is that the material should be taught through a problem solving approach, similar to the paradigm followed by practising statisticians or people carrying out scientific inquiry.