Teaching in the School of Mathematics Stuart King

Who do we teach? • Approx 200 per year Undergraduate (UG) plus 200250 MSc

University of Edinburgh (Uo. E) • Senate – two “Learning and Teaching (L&T)” committees

School of Maths (Some) Committees Boards In principle, Boards are answerable to College rather

People and Roles (in no particular order) Teaching Admin • Do. T and DDo.

Course Organising • For this and other information: https: //teaching. maths. ed. ac. uk

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Teaching in the School of Mathematics Stuart King (Director of Teaching (Do. T)) Richard Gratwick & Heather Yorston (Deputy Directors of Teaching (DDo. Ts)) “Around the School in 80 acronyms”

Who do we teach? • Approx 200 per year Undergraduate (UG) plus 200250 MSc (PGT) per year • UG: Degrees 4 years (eg BSc) or 5 years (Mmath) – Some students arrive directly into Year 2 – A variety of combined (i. e. joint) degree programmes – All students (except Y 2 entry) do a mixed curriculum in their first two years. 120 credits per year – Mix (Scottish and EU) + Rest of UK (RUK) + “Overseas” • PGT: mainly 1 -year, full-time. 120 taught credits plus Summer dissertation – Financial Maths, OR, Statistics, Computational Applied Maths

University of Edinburgh (Uo. E) • Senate – two “Learning and Teaching (L&T)” committees • Academic Services (student systems, timetabling, …) • Regulations, policies guidelines, … • https: //www. ed. ac. uk/academic-services/policies-regulations College of Science and Engineering (CSE) • Deans of L&T, Students, QA, …. • Academic administrator, Recruitment • College L&T committee (CL&TC) o Approves new courses/programmes, policies, concessions School of Maths Where L&T actually happens

School of Maths (Some) Committees Boards In principle, Boards are answerable to College rather than Head of School (Ho. S) • Board of Studies (Bo. S) – Ultimate approval for new courses and programmes (and major changes) • Boards of Examiners (Bo. E) – Course results – Progression • School Teaching Committee (STC) • • – Teaching policy, new programmes, … Convened by Do. T Teaching Programme Committee (TPC) – Oversight, incremental change, QA, … Convened by DDo. T Staff Student Liaison Committees (SSLC)

People and Roles (in no particular order) Teaching Admin • Do. T and DDo. T, Do. Q • Mathematics Teaching Organisation (MTO) – Teaching Administrator (Alice Heatley), Deputies (Annabelle Mac. Innes & Jill Timmins) plus six. • Year coordinators, Theme teaching representatives. • Course Organisers (CO) Student Support • Senior Tutors (ST) • Personal tutors – Most of us! • Student Learning Advisors (SLA and PGSLA) • Disability (Do. T, SLA currently) • Concessions (DDo. T currently)

Course Organising • For this and other information: https: //teaching. maths. ed. ac. uk • Course Organisers are responsible for the smooth running of courses and enhancement. – CO is the lecturer or one of the team of lecturers • Things like exam timing and format, syllabus, learning outcomes, class times, numbers of lectures/workshops are determined by TPC / Bo. S. • Particularly important areas: – – – Students informed of timings (including feedback dates) at START of course Lecture recording (encouraged where facility exists) Late hand-in policy Accommodating adjustments Mainstreamed adjustments (e. g. microphone to be worn where available, outlines of lectures in advance, some form of lecture notes available (complete or outline).