| Три английских математика пойдут в Африку гулять и учить |
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The Nuffield Foundation has recently awarded a grant of £105,000 for a two-year pilot project to support mathematics and its teaching in the Anglophone countries of sub-Saharan Africa. The grant has been awarded jointly to the London Mathematical Society (LMS), the International Mathematical Union (IMU) (http://www.mathunion.org/), and the African Mathematics Millennium Science Initiative (AMMSI) (http://www.ammsi-maths.org/).
This project is designed to counter the mathematics "brain-drain" from sub-Saharan Africa by supporting qualified mathematics professionals in situ. Continuing professional links to a centre in the developed world, professional mentoring, and the opportunity for periodic research travel will contribute to the possibility and relative attractiveness of contributing one's mathematical expertise at home rather than moving permanently to the developed world.
AMMSI focuses on building infrastructure and networking in mathematics in sub-Saharan Africa. It offers postgraduate scholarships, visiting lectureships, and conference support for the benefit of advanced students and young researchers in the mathematical sciences.
This project proposes to pilot a mentoring relationship between mathematicians in the U.K. and African colleagues, together with their students. It focuses on cultivating longer-term mentoring relations between individual mathematicians and students. Rather than simply supporting mathematics conferences and workshops in Anglophone countries in which mathematicians from the U.K. participate, this project will concentrate on the creation of joint research projects between U.K. mathematicians, their colleagues in sub-Saharan Africa, and doctoral students of those colleagues. During the two-year project period the aim is to create five mentoring collaborations in mathematical research and two in mathematics education.
We are looking for U.K. mathematicians interested in being part of these mentoring collaborations. We welcome expressions of interest from those with no prior experience of collaborating with research workers in Africa, as well as from those with existing links with African research.
We will expect a willingness to make at least one short visit to Africa and to host a short visit from Africa, as well as a commitment to a continuing mentoring responsibility.
The trustees will evaluate the success of the collaborations by asking the following questions:
For research collaborations, has the research collaboration resulted in a mathematical publication in a research mathematics journal of international standing? Or has the collaboration produced an MSc or PhD thesis?
For a mathematics education collaboration, has it produced publishable resource materials for teachers? Or has a mathematics-based professional development programme been sufficiently successful to be replicated elsewhere and/or to attract outside funding?
The deadline for the receipt of these expressions of interest is the 31st December 2005; they should be sent to:
Dr Stephen Huggett
The London Mathematical Society
De Morgan House
57-58 Russell Square
London WC1B 4HS
to whom queries may also be addressed (s.huggett@plymouth.ac.uk).
Peter Cooper
Executive Secretary
London Mathematical Society
57-58 Russell Square
London WC1B 4HS
Tel: 020 7637 3686
Web: www.lms.ac.uk
Charity no: 252660
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| Date: | February 24th, 2011 - 05:53 pm |
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| | Где то я уже это встречал. | (Link) |
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