All Higher education articles – Page 6
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ReviewChemistry3
This book introduces the three traditional areas of inorganic, organic and physical chemistry. It is aimed at those in the first year of UK university chemistry courses.
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FeatureThinking out of the box - skills for work
Elizabeth Page explains how a problem-based learning approach to chemistry module design helps students develop the skills they need for employment
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FeatureThere's teaching, and there's teaching
Starting university marks a new chapter in a student's life, with a brand new set of opportunities and challenges. But the different teaching style in higher education can prove to be an unexpected shock to the system. Catherine Smith explores what educators on either side can do to ease the transition
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NewsBP launches scholarship programme for STEM students
BP, one of the UK's leading graduate recruiters, has launched a new scholarship programme for talented science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) undergraduates in the UK.
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FeatureJump-starting lectures
There is an emerging trend towards using pre-lecture activities to support tertiary level learning: the options investigated
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SoundbiteVancomycin
Simon Cotton takes a look at those compounds that find themselves in the news or relate to our everyday lives.
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ResourceBusiness Skills for Chemists
Develop key business and entrepreneurial skills using these course materials and self-study resources for undergraduate chemistry students.
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ReviewChemistry3: introducing inorganic and physical chemistry
Andrew Burrows, John Holman, Andrew Parsons, Gwen Pilling and Gareth Price
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FeatureInvestigating Crystal Structures
Sixthformers are introduced to Madelung constants as a way of investigating ionic crystal structures
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FeatureIntuitive thinking and learning chemistry
Understanding students' intuitions about the world could provide insight into their misconceptions of chemical concepts
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FeatureBuild your own spectrophotometer
By designing and building their own visible-light spectrophotometers, students get to grips with the underlying principles of this widely used analytical tool
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FeaturePhenols in medicine
Phenol encountered in school or college chemistry laboratories demands special respect on account of its toxic and corrosive nature. But phenol and its derivatives do have a few medicinal surprises
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FeatureChemistry, medicine and genetic analysis
In the near future, doctors will be able to carry out a 'while you wait' test, using genetic analysis, for chlamydia, the silent disease that can lead to infertility in women.