New statistics real-world demands
The issue is particularly severe for statistics. The understanding of variability, of mechanisms for modelling variability, and of implications for obtaining and working with data, has acquired a new...
View ArticleCross-curricula priorities for statistics
Mathematics and statistics are perhaps unique in the extent to which they feed into other areas of the curriculum. My focus here is on statistics. Examples that come to mind are: In science areas,...
View ArticleBroadening PhD Training
There is surely an urgent need to broaden Australian PhD training to ensure that students understand the place of mathematics in a wider intellectual and disciplinary context. Two of the priority...
View ArticleResponses to the “Data Everywhere” Age
There is now unprecedented access to data from the web. Increasingly, this ought to inform teaching in science and social science. There are huge statistical issues that relate to the use of such...
View ArticleDemands for Statistics and Associated Computing Skills
Easily the largest area of employer demand, as I judge it, is for mathematicians and statisticians who have the skills needed to work with small or large datasets. In the talks given by speakers from...
View ArticleTeacher Support Initiatives
In a related submission, I have pressed the importance of high quality statistics education in schools. This should move away from the old rather boring narrow focus on measures of location and...
View ArticleGaps in Identified Themes – Implications of Technological Change and Advance
Technological change, what is here and what is on the way, has huge implications for the organisation of teaching – the boundaries of the individual classroom are no longer so all-constraining teaching...
View ArticleUpskilling Demands
In the increasing number of areas that rely heavily on computing technology, the skill demands have changed or are in many instances changing dramatically. Types of modeling have become readily...
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