SQA recruits approximately 11,000 teachers and lecturers as markers for the National Qualifications exam diet every year. Recruitment for the 2025 exams is currently underway, with opportunities available across many subjects and levels; including Applications of Mathematics and Mathematics.   SQA markers play a key role in supporting the exam diet, ensuring the consistent application…

Attendees at the last SMC Conference will have picked up their copy of ‘On the Plus Side’ by Achievement Award 2024 winner Chris Pritchard. The November issue Mathematical Gazette includes the following review of this wonderful book. On the plus side by Chris Pritchard, pp 208, £12 (+ p&p, SMC website). ISBN 978-1-3999-8226-9, Scottish Mathematical…

The Learned Societies’ Group for Scottish STEM education (LSG) is calling for the teaching of ethical literacy and critical thinking to begin in primary schools, and for this to continue throughout the whole school curriculum. 

The Scottish Mathematical Council have released a statement on the recent PISA results. See our Resources and Publications section (https://scottishmathematicalcouncil.org/resources-and-publications/) for full information.

We are pleased to report that Prof. Jonathan Fraser, of the University of St Andrews, has been awarded the Sir Edmund Whittaker Memorial Prize for 2023 by the Edinburgh Mathematical Society. This award is periodically awarded to an outstanding early-career mathematician having a specified connection with Scotland. Prof. Fraser, who has sat on the SMC…

We are delighted to announce that electronic versions of the SMC Journal going back to 1983 (Journal 13) are now available on the website (https://scottishmathematicalcouncil.org/resources-and-publications/).

The Scottish Government, in collaboration with Education Scotland, National Manufacturing Institute of Scotland, Glasgow Science Centre, Skills Development Scotland and Developing the Young Workforce are delighted to announce that the Engineering as a Career event has been rescheduled for Monday 18 March at Glasgow Science Centre from 15:45 to 18:00. The event will feature: talks…

The General Teaching Council for Scotland have released consultation documents on proposed changes to the Memorandum on Entry Requirements to Programmes of Initial Teacher Education in Scotland. To access and respond to the consultation, visit www.gtcs.org.uk/about-us/consultations. The deadline for responses is 21 March 2024 at 5pm.

It is with great sadness that the Scottish Mathematical Council has learned of the passing of Dr Tony Gardiner. Dr Gardiner, a Reader in Mathematics and Mathematics Education at the University of Birmingham, may be best known in Scotland as the original driving force behind the United Kingdom Mathematics Trust, the Intermediate and Junior Mathematical…