HEADS OF DEPARTMENTS OF MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES

<pre>ANNUAL CONFERENCE

The HoDoMS Annual Conference and Annual General Meeting will be held in the
Tapestry Room at Sheffield University on Friday 3rd April 1998. 

Programme

10.30 am	Arrival and coffee
11.00 am	Annual General Meeting
11.30 am	Professor TMM ObShea (Birkbeck College) "Resolving the Tension
between Quality Assessment and Quality Enhancement in University Teaching."
12.45 pm	Lunch
2.00 pm	Professor David Baume (Open University) "Professionalising the
Teaching of Mathematics in Higher Education w Exploring Implications of
>Dearing, Booth, the Institute, et. al."
3.15 pm	Tea
3.30 pm	Dr PE Kopp (University of Hull) and Dr Paul Higgins (West Merchant
Bank) "Key Skills, MathSkills and Employersb Needs."
4.30 pm	Close.

The conference is free to all paid up members of HoDoMS. Coffee, tea and
sit down lunch will be provided.
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