Mathematics education at BAMC 2007: a report on a higher education mini-symposium

The eight short papers summarised within this report, were presented by their authors at a two-hour mini-symposium at the British Applied Mathematics Conference (BAMC) held at Bristol in April 2007. Their aim was to give a current overview of the main and emerging issues facing university degrees in which mathematics forms a key part. Topics include the curriculum in engineering mathematics, the work of the Société Européenne pour la Formation des Ingenieurs (SEFI) Mathematics Working Group, how the curriculum in schools is being developed, poor knowledge of mechanics among Year One students, widening participation and need to form more graduates, support for specialist mathematics students on the later years of their programmes of study, and the training of academic staff and postgraduates who will be teaching mathematics.