Reflections from a past Director (2000-8)

It is a great pleasure to be invited to contribute to this the last issue of Connections produced by the MSOR Network. The Maths Stats & OR Network has made important and significant contributions to the development of learning and teaching in higher education for well over a decade firstly as a Subject Centre in the Learning and Teaching Support Network (LTSN) and more recently within the Higher Education Academy (HEA). Its forebears were the Computers in Teaching Initiative (CTI) and the UK Mathematics Courseware Consortium (MATHWISE) which helped develop the committed colleagues to form the basis of the MSOR Network together with the Royal Statistical Society’s Centre for Statistical Education.