Mathematical Sciences HE Curriculum Innovation Project Update

In January 2011 we ran a Mathematics HE Summit at the University of Birmingham. This brought together Heads of Mathematics or their representatives from 25 universities offering mathematics degrees (about half of those in England and Wales) as well as Education representatives from the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, the Royal Statistical Society, the Operational Research Society, the Council for the Mathematical Sciences and others. The Summit provided a day of debate, provocative presentations and discussion which was captured by a group of volunteer notetakers. The findings will be written into a published report and used when planning the third call for funding from the Mathematical Sciences HE Curriculum Innovation Project. Projects funded by the first Mathematical Sciences HE Curriculum Innovation funding call have now submitted their interim reports and all five are on track. Second call projects are getting underway. Here I describe two first call projects which seem relevant to this issue of Connections and address flexible learning.