Developing Graduate Skills in HE Mathematics Programmes

This project had three principal aims: 1. To capture examples of what is currently being done within Mathematics programmes in UK HEIs to address the development of graduate skills, 2. To provide an appraisal of what approaches appear to have been successful in developing these skills, and 3. To use this to make recommendations for the further development of these and other programmes of study that wish to encourage the development of graduate skills. Although a number of graduate skills can be developed through extra-curricular activities, this project investigated curriculum-based approaches. A set of 17 case studies from Mathematics departments at a range of UK HEIs were collected illustrating successful approaches to the development of graduate skills in different contexts and at different levels. These have been published in a booklet, and a workshop tour of five of the National HE STEM Programme Spoke regions has been carried out to publicise and disseminate the results. A subsequent call for small ‘Developing Graduate Skills uptake programme’ bids has led to three new projects, stimulated as a result of the case studies presented in this booklet.