Professional standards in the context of mathematics teaching in HE

Particularly with increased student fees coming in the formal recognition of teaching is now high on the HE agenda. It is therefore timely that the Higher Education Academy has recently revised its UK Professional Standards Framework for teaching and supporting learning in higher education (henceforth UKPSF) which sets out the standards that HE teaching should meet. Full details can be found on the HEA website www.heacademy.ac.uk/ukpsf. Here we outline what it means for the training of a new MSOR (Maths Stats and OR) lecturer.