Sigma - Supporting Excellence - Structuring Progress

sigma is a delivery partner with the National HE STEM Programme and has been asked to organise a competitive bidding process for distributing funds (which must be matched by the host institution) to create mathematics and/or statistics support provision at up to four HEIs, in England and Wales, which currently have little or no mathematics and/or statistics support.

For the purposes of this funding call, mathematics and/or statistics support refers to activities which are provided to support and enhance students’ learning of mathematics and/or statistics (in any one or more disciplines, at any level of higher education) and which are provided separately and in addition to traditional lectures, tutorials, examples classes, personal tutorial sessions etc.

What is the aim of the funding?
The aim of the funding will be to:

• pump-prime mathematics and/or statistics support provision in an HEI in England and Wales that currently has no such provision

or

• enhance provision in an HEI in England and Wales where such provision has been established but is not highly developed.

Successful bidders will also be expected to play an active role in the sigma mathematics and statistics support network and particularly in their local sigma hub, for example hosting a local hub event, submitting articles for the sigma newsletter, attending the annual CETL-MSOR conference and so on.

Click on the documents on the right hand side to access the full guidance notes for this funding call (including the key dates around the submission) and the submission form template.