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The University of Sheffield has been increasingly YouTubing it over the past year. Many of you will be aware of the “Dream Bigger Dreams” video and campaign. This is the “official” video:

There are videos that the University has asked students to make about their experiences here. One of the most recent was the “Sheffield Made [...]

I have lots of people who seem to know Americans on Facebook or at least care about their Thanksgiving. Given that many of my friends are Canadians and given the proximity of the two countries, perhaps it is not that surprising (click here for a rather funny blog post on the different approaches Canadians and [...]

On Tuesday May 19th the latest teachingcommons Teaching Statistics event was held in the Enterprise Zone. Lead by Peter Mitchell, this session questioned which statistical ideas are considered essential for students and whether there were enough commonalities across departments’ use of stats to consider a generic statistics course – or whether discipline-specific teaching is the most effective means of grasping statistical ideas.

On Monday 9th March teachingcommons held a Teaching Stats Circle which brought together University students and staff to discuss a proposal by MASH (Maths and Statistics Help) to have a University-wide course on statistics.
The proposal, put together by Chetna Patel from MASH, is attached to here. MASH proposal for university wide statistics course
About 20 people [...]

At this last session Jean Russell, a Statistician for CiCS, agreed to set up a blog about Statistics Resources. It is available for you to read here (please note that you must be on-campus to see this site): http://clearspace.shef.ac.uk:8080/clearspace/blogs/StatSuppRes
Her first post is about statistical software available from CiCS.
If you want to find out what was discussed, [...]