Harmonising Learning and Graduate Skills in the Mathematical Sciences......MSOR Connections May 2006 Vol 6 No 2

[email protected] This article provides a brief background to the increasing importance for the MSOR community to enhance and better articulate to students, their prospective employers and to funding bodies of the skills developed in the study of mathematics-based undergraduate and postgraduate courses. Future development in mathematics curricula may also benefit from the integrative learning of subject-specific and wider skills to help ensure mathematics graduates are well positioned in their early careers or further studies. Success would be to encourage more students to take degrees involving mathematics, a more varied learning environment for mathematics and for students to gain a greater awareness of their employability competencies.