Every year the Southampton Science & Engineering Day organisers give out awards and this year the Teacher Zone won ‘Best Collaboration’! Massive congratulations to everyone involved, not in the least to our School-University Partnership Officer Jessica Spurrell!
Ros Hyde and Lucy Hoyes‘ PGCE mathematics trainees recently joined a Roundtable event ‘How to enhance student teachers evidence-based decision competencies’, co-chaired by Christian Bokhove as part of the Erasmus+ RiTE project. Delegates were presented with a series of thought-provoking statements and had the opportunity to discuss how these related to using evidence with trainees…
Jenny Byrne and Marcus Grace have been involved in an NIHR funded research project that undertook a survey of health education in UK HEI providers and a systematic review of health education in ITE. The report is now published and is the second NIHR Public Health Research programme-funded project to be published in the new…
Mathematics teacher, and University of Southampton alumnus, William Emeny, picked up a top honour at the 2016 Pearson Teaching Awards. He was winner of the award for Teacher of the Year in a Secondary School. William completed his mathematics PGCE at the University of Southampton in 2009-10. The ceremony was broadcast on BBC2 TV on…
Dr. Christian Bokhove recently gave an invited seminar at Loughborough University: Using technology to support mathematics education and research Christian received his PhD in 2011 at Utrecht University and is lecturer at the University of Southampton. In this talk Christian will present a wide spectrum of research initiatives that all involve the use of technology…
The transition from A-level mathematics and further maths courses to undergraduate (UG) mathematics courses can be challenging at times. This project aims to contribute to an improved transition through creating and curating high quality tutoring materials for the transition from Maths and Further Maths at A-level to undergraduate mathematics, and piloting these materials in a…
Our research centre was pleased to host a visit by Dr Yusuke Shinno, Osaka Kyoiku University, Japan, accompanied by Dr Taro Fujita, University of Exeter, UK, on Tuesday 8 December. The visit provided an opportunity to discuss the research being carried out by Dr Shinno and Dr Fujita into learners’ difficulties with mathematical induction, a…