More maths grads
Encyclopedia
More maths grads is a three-year project instituted in 2007 by a consortium of British
mathematics
organisations, including the London Mathematical Society
, the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications
, the Royal Statistical Society
, the Maths, Stats & OR Network
and HoDoMS
, the Heads of Departments of Mathematical Sciences. Funding of £3.3M was provided by the Higher Education Funding Council for England
. The project aims to develop, test and evaluate means of increasing the number of students studying mathematics and to encourage participation from groups of learners not well represented in higher education
. It is administered at the University of Birmingham
.
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
mathematics
Mathematics
Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...
organisations, including the London Mathematical Society
London Mathematical Society
-See also:* American Mathematical Society* Edinburgh Mathematical Society* European Mathematical Society* List of Mathematical Societies* Council for the Mathematical Sciences* BCS-FACS Specialist Group-External links:* * *...
, the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications
Institute of Mathematics and its Applications
The Institute of Mathematics and its Applications is the UK's chartered professional body for mathematicians and one of the UK's learned societies for mathematics ....
, the Royal Statistical Society
Royal Statistical Society
The Royal Statistical Society is a learned society for statistics and a professional body for statisticians in the UK.-History:It was founded in 1834 as the Statistical Society of London , though a perhaps unrelated London Statistical Society was in existence at least as early as 1824...
, the Maths, Stats & OR Network
Maths, Stats & OR Network
The Maths, Stats & OR Network of the Higher Education Academy of the United Kingdom is a subject-specific support network for enhancing the student learning experience in Mathematics, Statistics and Operations Research....
and HoDoMS
HoDoMS
HoDoMS is a body that represents United Kingdom departments of Mathematics and Statistics in higher education by co-ordinating senior members of these departments....
, the Heads of Departments of Mathematical Sciences. Funding of £3.3M was provided by the Higher Education Funding Council for England
Higher Education Funding Council for England
The Higher Education Funding Council for England is a non-departmental public body of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills in the United Kingdom, which has been responsible for the distribution of funding to Universities and Colleges of Higher and Further Education in England since...
. The project aims to develop, test and evaluate means of increasing the number of students studying mathematics and to encourage participation from groups of learners not well represented in higher education
Higher education
Higher, post-secondary, tertiary, or third level education refers to the stage of learning that occurs at universities, academies, colleges, seminaries, and institutes of technology...
. It is administered at the University of Birmingham
University of Birmingham
The University of Birmingham is a British Redbrick university located in the city of Birmingham, England. It received its royal charter in 1900 as a successor to Birmingham Medical School and Mason Science College . Birmingham was the first Redbrick university to gain a charter and thus...
.