The Skills needed by Postgraduates who teach Mathematics and Statistics

In October of 2005 the Maths Stats & OR Network ran a series of workshops for postgraduates who teach Mathematics and Statistics initiated by Michael Grove [1]. For an individual postgraduate’s experiences of teaching see [2]. And for a novel and important role for postgraduates see [3]. The postgraduate workshops represent a useful addition to the CPD activities that the MSOR Subject Centre is building up [4]. As the workshops progressed a unifying pattern began to emerge of the training needs for postgraduates and we develop this further in this article.