Outreach to Schools

We are keen to develop closer relations with students and teachers in secondary schools and colleges, providing various kinds of support, and our admissions tutor is happy to answer specific questions on our programmes. We are also involved in a range of outreach activities with the aim of promoting, enhancing and enriching mathematics and statistics in schools through promotion and support for the following activities:

• STEMNET - a number of staff in the Department, and scientists working locally, are STEMNET Ambassadors enabling teachers to make links from the curriculum to how Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics is practised in the world of work, illuminating applications across a vast range of careers.
• Student Tutoring (Community Service Volunteers) which aims to raise the aspirations of pupils in schools and to encourage them to continue in education beyond the age of 16 years, by placing students currently in Higher Education in the classroom alongside teachers, to give help and to act as positive role models.
• Student Recruitment and Outreach who organise and run a range of outreach activities on and off campus to raise the aspiration and ability of young people, including support for the Higher Education Summer Schools, and through events on opportunities in Higher Education and Careers.
• South East Further Mathematics Support Programme is an initiative making Further Maths available to all pupils in the South East. The Maths and Stats Department is a member of the FMSP and hosts and contributes to study days which are open to all Further Maths pupils and supported by local students.

Professor Averil Macdonald is the Professor of Science Communication. Please contact her for more information on Public Engagement in Science at the University.

Dr Steve Langdon is the Department's Admissions Tutor. Please contact him for more information on our undergraduate programmes.

Dr Paul Glaister is the Department's Director of Outreach to Schools. Please contact him for more information on the above outreach activities.