Item added to bagSorry, there was a problem getting your bag informationItem cannot be purchased with the existing contents of your bagItem unavailable online
✕

was added to your bag.

Please try again.

Sorry, this item cannot be purchased in the same transaction as the existing items in your bag.

Please complete the purchase of the items currently in your bag and then add this item in a separate transaction or visit Shopping Help.

Sorry, this product is not currently available to buy online. Please visit Shopping Help.

View bag and checkout
Remove item
✕

Are you sure you want to remove from your bag?

News and Events

Cambridge Research Director joins Maths Expert Group

Tim Oates, Cambridge's Director of Assessment Research and Development, has been appointed to the UK government's Expert Advisory Group on Maths to 18. 

Assessment
Education debate
Future of education
Learning
Our people
Teaching
UK education
Tim Oates 6

In January 2023, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak launched a new mission for all young people to study maths to age 18. In a speech today addressing the UK's 'anti-maths mindset', the Prime Minister announced the formation of a new Expert Group to advise on maths content. 

Tim is one of eight education experts, mathematicians and business representatives invited to join the Group. It will collate evidence and provide advice to the Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Education on what maths and skills are needed for jobs in the modern economy, and therefore what 'best in class' modern maths content should look like. 

The members of the Group are: 

  • Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock MBE, Chancellor, University of Leicester
  • Peter Cooper, Executive Principal and CEO, Heart of Mercia Multi-Academy Trust
  • Lucy-Marie Hagues, CEO, Capital One UK
  • Professor Jeremy Hodgen, Professor of Mathematics Education, University College London 
  • Simon Lebus, Non-Executive Chairman, Sparx
  • Tim Oates CBE, Group Director of Assessment Research and Development, Cambridge University Press & Assessment 
  • Charlie Stripp MBE, CEO, MEI and Director, National Centre for Excellence in Teaching of Mathematics
  • Fionnuala Swann, Assistant Principal (Academic), Nelson and Colne College Group 

The key challenges for the Group to advise on are 'what maths is required to be globally competitive?' and 'how this maths is taught', in the post-16 education system. In parallel, the DfE will consider the role that digital tools and platforms can play to support maths. 

Tim Oates, Cambridge's Director of Assessment Research and Development, said: "Numeracy skills are absolutely vital for all young people and for the UK's success. I look forward to contributing to the Group, reaching out to other experts, and drawing on Cambridge University Press & Assessment's extensive international and domestic work on maths education." 

The Group is expected to produce written evidence and advice for the Prime Minister and the Secretary of State for Education by the end of July 2023.

A new Department for Education blog on plans to expand maths study for 16 to 18-year olds is here.