sigma is extending existing specialist support for students with additional needs or specific learning difficulties, and ensuring the transfer of expertise between Loughborough and Coventry Universities and beyond.
This includes working with students with a range of support needs, such as dyslexia, dyscalculia, maths phobia and blindness as well as those students who lack confidence in their maths or statistics. In addition, support is provided to help build confidence with employer numeracy tests and workshops are offered focusing on the aims of numeracy tests, how to prepare for them, pre-requisite skills you should have and can practice, as well as looking at typical questions.
Links have been developed and stengthened with the Disabilities Office at Coventry University and the Disabilities and Additional Needs Service at Loughborough University. As a by-product of sigma development, the UK’s first Postgraduate Certificate course relating to dyslexia and dyscalculia in mathematics in FE/HE has been developed, with the first course running in April 2007.