Widening participation in mathematics: an East London perspective

The main goals of the more maths grads project were to encourage more students to take up degree courses in mathematical sciences and to increase the numbers participating from traditionally under-represented groups. In practice we concentrated our efforts on schools and colleges with high proportions of students who come from lower socio-economic backgrounds or who are of Bangladeshi Pakistani Black Caribbean or Black African ethnicity.

In this article I will describe some of the activities we have carried out at Queen Mary and how effective they have been in the East London context.