The aim is to improve:

• Graduate and employability skills of Mathematics students.
• Student confidence in their employability.  
• Student awareness of their career options. 
• Employer engagement with HEI Mathematics departments, curriculum development and Mathematics students.

• To sustainably embed appropriate graduate skills training.
• To create improved and long-lasting links with employers, deepening engagement with the School, by establishing an Industrial Advisory Board. 
• To establish a 10 credit Year 2 module ‘Mathematics in Industry.’ 
• To disseminate via the HE STEM programme, HEA MSOR Network reports, the Educational Enhancement Seminar and the Learning and Teaching Conference.

• Sustainable integration of enhanced graduate skills provision in to the first two year of the School’s programmes.
• An Industrial Advisory Board. 
• A new 10 credit 2nd year module ‘Mathematics in Industry.’ 
• Two Employer Workshops and a Dissemination Workshop.
• Reports on the project published via the HE STEM programme, HEA MSOR Network (publications and conference), the University’s Educational Enhancement Seminar and the Learning and Teaching Conference.

The intended outcomes of the project are improved graduate and employability skills in Mathematics graduates, improved student awareness of career options and confidence, greater engagement between the School of Mathematics at Birmingham and other local HEIs and Industry, together with dissemination of the methodology across the sector.  Skills are measurable through performance in certain modules. 

Employability and career awareness will, in the long term, be measurable through employability statistics and responses to national surveys. 

The level of engagement between the School and Industry will be measurable through the activities of the Industrial Advisory Board and the sustainability of the module ‘Mathematics in Industry.’