Teaching in UK higher education has increased in status and profile in recent years and there is now often an expectation that new lecturers undergo some kind of ‘teacher training’ - possibly accredited. As described in there is already a distance learning Certificate in Teaching Statistics – now in its second year of operation supported by the Maths Stats & OR (MSOR) Network in the Higher Education Academy (HE Academy) and the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) Centre for Statistics Education. This has been accredited by the HE Academy as a 20-credit programme that new lecturers can use towards HE Academy membership. Also for some years an annual residential induction course for new teachers of mathematics in UK higher education has been run at Birmingham under the auspices of the MSOR Network.
