All Higher education articles – Page 6
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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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News
BP 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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Jump-starting lectures
There is an emerging trend towards using pre-lecture activities to support tertiary level learning: the options investigated
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Soundbite
Vancomycin
Simon Cotton takes a look at those compounds that find themselves in the news or relate to our everyday lives.
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Resource
Business 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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Review
Chemistry3: introducing inorganic and physical chemistry
Andrew Burrows, John Holman, Andrew Parsons, Gwen Pilling and Gareth Price
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Feature
Investigating Crystal Structures
Sixthformers are introduced to Madelung constants as a way of investigating ionic crystal structures
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Feature
Intuitive thinking and learning chemistry
Understanding students' intuitions about the world could provide insight into their misconceptions of chemical concepts
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Feature
Build 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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Feature
Phenols 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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Feature
Chemistry, 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.
