1. Teaching in the School of Mathematics
Toby Bailey (Director of Teaching (DoT))
Stuart King (Deputy Director of Teaching (DDoT))
“Around the School in 80 acronyms”

2. Who do we teach?
Approx 200 per year Undergraduate (UG) plus 200 MSc (PGT)
UG: Degrees 4 years (eg BSc) or 5 years (Mmath)
Some students arrive directly into Year 2
A variety of combined (i.e. joint) degree programmes
All students (except Y2 entry) do a mixed curriculum in their first two years credits per year
Mix (Scottish and EU) + Rest of UK (RUK) + “Overseas”
PGT: mainly 1-year, full-time. 120 taught credits plus Summer dissertation
Financial Maths, OR, Statistics, computational applied

3. University of Edinburgh (UoE)
Senate – two “Learning and Teaching (L&T)” committees
Academic Services (student systems, timetabling, …)
Regulations, policies guidelines, …
College of Science and Engineering (CSE)
Deans of L&T, Students, QA, ….
Academic administrator, Recruitment
College L&T committee (CL&TC)
Approves new courses/programmes, policies, concessions
School of Maths
Where L&T actually happens

4. School of Maths Boards (Some) Committees
In principle, Boards are answerable to College rather than Head of School (HoS)
Board of Studies (BoS)
Ultimate approval for new courses and programmes (and major changes)
Boards of Examiners (BoE)
Course results
Progression
(Some) Committees
School Teaching Committee (STC)
Teaching policy, new programmes, … Convened by DoT
Teaching Programme Committee (TPC)
Oversight, incremental change, QA, … Convened by DDoT
Staff Student Liaison Committees (SSLC)

5. People and Roles (in no particular order)
Teaching Admin
DoT and DDoT, DoQ
Mathematics Teaching Organisation (MTO)
Teaching Administrator (Alice Heatley), Deputy (Luke Caudrey) plus six.
Year coordinators, Theme teaching representatives.
Course Organisers (CO)
Student Support
Senior Tutors (ST)
Personal tutors
Most of us!
Student Learning Advisors (SLA and PGSLA)
Disability (DoT, SLA currently)
Concessions (DDoT currently)

6. Course Organising
For this and other information:
Course Organisers are responsible for the smooth running of courses and enhancement.
CO is the lecturer or one of the team of lecturers
Things like exam timing and format, syllabus, learning outcomes, class times, numbers of lectures/workshops are determined by TPC / BoS.
Particularly important areas:
Students informed of timings (including feedback dates) at START of course
Lecture recording (encouraged where facility exists)
Late hand-in policy
Accommodating adjustments
Mainstreamed adjustments (e.g. microphone to be worn where available, outlines of lectures in advance, some form of lecture notes available (complete or outline).

7. Teaching Ethos
Interactive engagement is better for learning (see eg
Flipped classrooms and Top Hat being used a lot.
Cooperative learning
Open book exams (years 1 and 2, partial in some Y3)
Technology enhancement
Stack and Code Runner
Research informed instruction
Teaching Café
Education Seminars/Colloquia