Variety in Chemistry Education conference report

By Michael Seery2014-09-01T16:20:00

This year the ViCE meeting was held in Durham, and in this article, I try to give a flavour of some of the themes discussed

After a summer of big conferences, the final meeting before term restarts was the annual Variety in Chemistry Education (ViCE), held at the end of August each year. The conference is co-hosted with the Physics Higher Education Conference (PHEC), and while it is much smaller in scale, it is pound for pound (or Euro for Euro) one of the best meetings on the calendar. This year, the hosts were Durham University, and it had the usual high standards of useful and pragmatic presentations by academic staff showcasing different strategies for the teaching and learning of chemistry.

Michael Seery discussed the key themes from this year's ViCE meeting.

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