“The final years of school can be confusing and stressful at the best of times.  We do young people no favours when we contribute to the confusion by failing to send clear signals about the [...]

Chief Scientist / AMSI report and student reaction in ‘The Australian’

Digest of the Chief Scientist / AMSI paper on Prerequisites in Campus Morning Mail

Release today of the ‘Mapping University Prerequisites in Australia’ paper by the Office of the Chief Scientist and the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute (AMSI) shows few [...]

Article by Henrietta Cook and Timna Jackson, The Age, Saturday 29 August, 2015. “I’ve left my glasses at home,” the 30-year-old with perfect vision said. Chisholm Institute of [...]

Radio piece by Stephanie Pradier, Science Show, Radio National, Saturday 22 August, 2015. Mathematics is the basis of all science. And its importance is increasing as computers handle large [...]

Article by Tim Dodd, Australian Financial Review, 10 August 2015 Bruce Henry, the head of UNSW Australia’s School of Mathematics and Statistics laments that 70 per cent of students now [...]

Article by Tim Dodd, Australian Financial Review, 9 August 2015. Top educators have defended Australian universities’ move away from requiring maths as a prerequisite for science, [...]

Article by Tim Dodd, Australian Financial Review, 7 August, 2015 The Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute has called on universities to reverse an historic low in the number of institutions [...]