[Maths-Education] TTA and Maths Enhancement Course
Pat Perks
maths-education@nottingham.ac.uk
Fri, 1 Nov 2002 09:38:12 +0100 [BST]
In September a number of maths educators, maths lecturers, advisers etc
went to two TTA regional days to discuss potential maths enhancement
courses, six months bursaried. Many of us with 2 year courses pointed
out that giving payment to some and not to others would undermine
recruitment to existing courses. The TTA is adamant there is a new pool
of potential recruits. At the AMET day on 5th October this was a major
discussion point and a letter was sent to Ralph Tabberer with copies to
ACME, JMC and the relevant politicians. If anyone wants a copy I will
send one.
There were nine discussion groups and RT writes:
=93the consensus, from all but one group, was that the proposed course
merited further exploration.=94
Well, Stephanie Prestage, Dave Hewitt and I all think we were in that
group - and we were in different groups. Only Dave=92s group refused to
discuss changes to the proposal =96 so I think our politeness has allowed
the reporting to be interpreted as above.
If you were at that meeting =96 and are willing to be named as thinking yo=
u
were in THE group, will you allow me to use your name in further letters
and to the TES.
I know there are problems with under-recruitment and subject knowledge
and and =85 but the solution is likely to make the problem worse.
Pat