One of our top priorities is ensuring that the UK has healthy maths degree provision at all tariff-levels and across the country. This must be a crucial part of any strategy to improve economic growth and productivity, or to strengthen the maths teacher workforce.
However, following several cuts or closures at university maths department in recent years, the start of 2025 has seen a series of university-wide announcements on voluntary redundancy processes, potentially affecting mathematics.
Therefore, in January 2025, CaMS launched our Provision Tracker, through which we will proactively monitor the health of university maths departments. We will do this by collating public data on provision, including through official university communications and other published content, such as news articles and research reports.
We want to work with university maths departments to prevent further downsizing or closures. We will support our colleagues in the maths community wherever possible.
If you would like to discuss a particular issue in strictest confidence, please contact Professor Jens Marklof, President of the London Mathematical Society, at j.marklof@lms.ac.uk
