Abstract

The academic year 2016-17 was one of outstanding achievement for the sigma Mathematics Support team at Coventry University. We had a further increase in the take-up of sigma’s range of services by students from all faculties and our feedback has been enthusiastically positive. Above all, the team has taken some innovative approaches to support and inspire Coventry’s ever-growing body of students and staff. This article aims to provide insight into our services and to provide perhaps some inspiration and ideas that other support centres can use.

Highlights

  • Since 1991, Mathematics Support has been provided at Coventry University by the sigma team, which is currently composed of two mathematicians and three statisticians, all of whom are full-time, together with its part-time director

  • We have over 10,000 student and staff visits each year and this past academic year we had 13,670 visits, our highest ever

  • Results are processed by an OMR (Optical Mark Reader) machine and we provide the results to the students in a separate induction talk in the Mathematics Support Centre (MSC)

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Introduction

Since 1991, Mathematics Support has been provided at Coventry University by the sigma team, which is currently composed of two mathematicians and three statisticians, all of whom are full-time, together with its part-time director. From humble beginnings in a small and difficult-to-reach room, the sigma Mathematics Support Centre (MSC) is a large and welcoming room on the ground floor of the university library (see figure 1). We have over 10,000 student and staff visits each year and this past academic year we had 13,670 visits, our highest ever. The 13,670 visits consist of 3026 individual students, each student averaged around 4 repeat visits each. In this article we describe what our MSC offers, how we advertise our services, and hope to provide some ideas and inspiration for other MSCs

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