We have a dedicated Maths Support Centre which opened last year. (http://www.reading.ac.uk/mathssupport/) The Co-ordinator has a Maths PhD, but otherwise it's staffed by postgraduate students. It's aimed at students who have some maths in their courses rather than Maths students; we also have a separate Statistics Advisory Centre.
The Maths Support Centre co-ordinator is Dr Philip Sanders ([log in to unmask]) - I'm sure he would be happy to answer any questions about the service.
Kim
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Dr Kim Shahabudin
Study Support Adviser &
LearnHigher Research Officer
University of Reading
Study Support & Learning Development
1st Floor, The Health Centre
Bulmershe Court
Woodlands Ave
Reading RG6 1HY.
Tel: 0118 378 7490/5956
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www.rdg.ac.uk/studyskills
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From: learning development in higher education network on behalf of Becka Currant
Sent: Tue 31/10/2006 19:45
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Maths Support
Dear all
yes it's me again with another question ;-)
Firstly many thanks to those of you who replied to my question about opening
hours. The responses were very useful, and it's interesting to see the
variation in opening hours/times across different services. For next semester
we will be trying out 8am-8pm Mon to Fri and 1pm-4pm on Sundays. We will be
using a student peer support team to provide additional out of hours support in
the evenings and at weekends (see here for more details of how this currently
works for our IT Help service:
http://www.brad.ac.uk/lss/lsc/it4students/it-help/index.php
And now for my question... I am in the process of writing the job descriptions
for our Advisers and I am therefore wondering how Maths/Numeracy support works
at other institutions? We are ideally looking for someone who can work across a
number of academic areas (e.g. humanities, sciences, engineering) and provide
varying levels of support from GCSE to degree level. The initial focus will be
on supporting Foundation Year and Stage 1 students making the transition to
studying at HE level. What qualifications did you look for in your staff who
work in this area? Did you want to recruit someone with a Maths degree? Or was
someone who had A Levels and/or a PGCE sufficient?
Many thanks if you can help!
Becka
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Becka Currant
Senior Adviser
Learner Development Unit
University of Bradford
Tel: 01274 235137
www.brad.ac.uk/lss/learnerdevelopment
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