Only one in three matriculants took pure Mathematics in 2025. For a country where STEM skills are officially classified as critical – and where the National Development Plan targets 450 000 university ...

Towards the end of A levels, the Further Mathematics class of a batch usually comes down to a fifth of its initial size. Being arguably the most difficult subject out of all the A levels, Further ...

As hard-pressed universities axe abstract study, the codebreaker’s great niece and top mathematicians are fighting back Almost exactly 80 years ago, British codebreakers made a crucial breakthrough.

A campaign, backed by the family of Alan Turing, warns that students learning 'pure maths' is on the decline because it is threatened by a focus on other subjects. Pure maths is the study of concepts, ...

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