Warwick Teaching Certificate (Mathematics)

Over the last five years most British universities have introduced training for their new teaching staff. Completing it is increasingly a condition for ending probation and having one’s appointment made permanent. In most cases the training is provided across all subjects by a Centre for Staff Development or a Centre for Academic Practice. This article begins with some very brief comments on central or generic staff training and goes on to describe an experiment still in its first year in which the Mathematics Department at Warwick has taken over the training of its own staff. More details can be found at http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/~mond/wtc.html (henceforth referred to as ‘the website’).