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Mathematics at Keele
Mathematics combines the beautiful and the useful. It is intellectually
satisfying, sometimes shocking, persistently relevant.
The Mathematics undergraduate degree
programmes available at Keele are:
• Single Honours Mathematics (BSc);
• Integrated Masters Mathematics
(MMath);
• Mathematics with International Year
(BSc);
• Mathematics with International Year
(MMath);
• Mathematics with Work Placement Year
(BSc);
• Mathematics with Work Placement Year
(MMath)
• Combined Honours Mathematics (BSc).
Our Intergrated Masters (MMath) degree
is accredited to meet the educational
requirements of the Chartered Mathematician
designation awarded by the Institute of
Mathematics and its Applications.
Our Single Honours (BSc) degree will
meet the educational requirements of the
Chartered Mathematician designation
awarded by the Institute of Mathematics
and its Applications, when they are followed
by subsquent training and experience
in employment to obtain equivalent
competences to those specificied by the
Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) for taught
masters degrees.
The Mathematics department is part of the
School of Computing and Mathematics.
It has around twenty academic staff,
specialising in a wide variety of branches
of mathematics, together with a number
of postgraduate students and researchers.
Over the years we have prided ourselves
on providing a friendly and supportive
environment for students. In particular,
by the end of your degree, you should feel
that you know the staff well and that they
know you.
Understandably, many students regard
the transition from A-level to university
mathematics with some trepidation.
On the one hand this is a healthy attitude:
University mathematics is conceptually
stretching and presents many challenges.
On the other hand, however, we recognise
the need for making this transition as smooth
as possible, and to this end we have:
• a very carefully designed first year
curriculum;
• a multi-layered student support
structure;
• rapid feedback on coursework;
• considerable experience in teaching,
examining and moderating A-level
Mathematics and Further Mathematics,
and in school/college liaison.
There is also an active Student-Staff
Voice Committee.
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