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Hi Becka Have you seen the Mathstore site? There are some guidelines on drop-in centres at http://mathstore.ac.uk/publications/index.shtml#2. Our drop-in centre is open to any undergraduates. All of our staff have first degrees in maths or stats and I consider this to be essential - look at the current state of maths teaching in schools as an example of what happens if you let non-specialists teach maths. I think it's important to have a number of people involved (we have up to 15 people, each of whom provide cover for a couple of hours and there is a mixture of permanent staff, part-timers and postgraduates) and that a mixture of areas of expertise is provided (including matematical and statistical sessions and, ideally, dyslexia/dyscalculia specialists). Equally important is a light personal touch and empathy with under-confident students. Dave Graham SumUp University of Plymouth Drake Circus Plymouth PL4 8AA -----Original Message----- From: learning development in higher education network [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Kim Shahabudin Sent: 01 November 2006 11:47 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: FW: Maths Support 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 ------------------------------------ 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 [log in to unmask] www.rdg.ac.uk/studyskills ------------------------------------- ________________________________ 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 -- Becka Currant Senior Adviser Learner Development Unit University of Bradford Tel: 01274 235137 www.brad.ac.uk/lss/learnerdevelopment ------------------------------------------------------------ This mail sent through IMP: http://webmail.brad.ac.uk <http://webmail.brad.ac.uk/> To report misuse from this email address forward the message and full headers to [log in to unmask] ------------------------------------------------------------