2009

In response to teacher demand, we are delighted that Mathematics has been added to the list of subjects offered by The Prince's Teaching Institute.  The first pilot Maths stream at a joint Maths and Science Summer School at Queens' College, Cambridge was held from the 29th June to the 1st July 2009.

We were delighted to welcome some very high profile and impressive speakers to this event including:

• Professor John Barrow, Director of the Millennium Mathematics Project at the University of Cambridge
• Professor Chris Budd, Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Bath
• Michael Gove MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families
• Adam Hart-Davis, Writer, Presenter and Broadcaster
• Professor Dame Julia Higgins DBE, Chair, Advisory Committee on Mathematics Education
• Professor Celia Hoyles OBE, Director of The National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics
• Dr Julian Griffin, Royal Society University Research Fellow at the Department of Biochemistry, University    of Cambridge
• Jonathon Porritt CBE, Programme Director of Forum for the Future and Chairman of the UK Sustainable Development Commission
• Professor David Spielgelhalter OBE, Professor for the Public Understanding of Risk at the University of Cambridge
• Mr Francis Wells, Cardiothoracic Surgeon at Papworth Hospital, Cambridge

The programme for the Maths course can be found by clicking here, and the Science course here.