News & analysis – Page 41

  • The winning team with head of chemistry, Kamaljit Bains
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    Londoners take top spot in final

    2008-07-01T00:00:00Z

    Students from Highgate School, London, overcame strong competition from a field of 27 secondary school teams to take first prize at this year's Top of the Bench national final

  • Students working on a practical task
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    Extra cash for chemistry in the short term

    2008-07-01T00:00:00Z

    The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) has awarded an additional £1.65m to the Chemistry for our future (CFOF) programme

  • Dr Paul Wyatt, director of the Bristol ChemLabS
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    Innovation in the lab earns HE award

    2008-07-01T00:00:00Z

    University of Bristol's Paul Wyatt is the winner of the 2008 RSC Education Division's Higher Education award

  • CPD events from the RSC
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    What benefits subject-specific CPD?

    2008-07-01T00:00:00Z

    Independent report finds that teachers who take part in RSC's Chemistry for non-specialists (CFNS) become more confident in their teaching of chemistry and practical chemistry

  • Working on science: an image from the Xperimania webiste
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    Spectraschool and Xperimania

    2008-05-01T00:00:00Z

    Netgains

  • A teaching workshop
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    RSC INSET summer programme

    2008-05-01T00:00:00Z

    During June and July, the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) will be hosting INSET events for chemistry teachers

  • Students in a lab
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    Sheffield chemistry - provides exclusive lab for schools

    2008-05-01T00:00:00Z

    A dedicated schools' chemistry lab in the department of chemistry at the University of Sheffield provides school students with a front row view of HE chemistry

  • A depressed looking teen holding prozac
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    Prozac problems

    2008-05-01T00:00:00Z

    Simon Cotton takes a look at those compounds that find themselves in the news or relate to our everyday lives

  • Cover of The Chemedian
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    The Chemedian

    2008-05-01T00:00:00Z

    Researchers from the University of the West of England have come up with a novel way of engaging pupils in scientific discussion

  • Flying with a jetpack
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    Workshop on science careers

    2008-05-01T00:00:00Z

    Opportunity for science teachers and career advisers to update their knowledge of university science courses and careers for science graduates

  • 11 year olds working in class
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    Challenging Science

    2008-05-01T00:00:00Z

    The value of introducing challenging practical and interactive science lessons for 11-year olds

  • Clostridium difficile
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    An old drug for a new problem

    2008-05-01T00:00:00Z

    Medicinal compounds: John Mann takes a look at drugs on the market

  • Student taking a test
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    Are STEM subjects really difficult?

    2008-05-01T00:00:00Z

    Two independent studies investigate whether some school subjects, notably science and maths, are more difficult than others

  • Student asking a question
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    MPs face young scientists

    2008-05-01T00:00:00Z

    In March, young scientists quiz politicians on UK science at the Royal Society of Chemistry's (RSC) Voice of the future event

  • national stem learning centre
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    National Science Learning Centre set to expand

    2008-05-01T00:00:00Z

    Definitive collection of teaching resources coming to the National Science Learning Centre (SLC) in York

  • Pharmaceutical research
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    Research fund 2009

    2008-05-01T00:00:00Z

    The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) is inviting members (and non-member school teachers) to apply to its Research Fund for grants

  • Frustrated teacher
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    What is a chemical?

    2008-05-01T00:00:00Z

    We take it for granted that those who teach chemistry know what chemicals are but this is not always the case

  • Students on a university campus
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    Review of HE chemistry experience

    2008-03-01T00:00:00Z

    Higher Education Academy Physical Sciences Centre invites chemistry lecturers and their undergraduates to contribute to its review of the student learning experience in chemistry

  • Pharmaceutical research
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    Summer research grants

    2008-03-01T00:00:00Z

    Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSD) invites UK chemistry undergraduates to apply for funding to allow them to do research at their university this summer

  • Barrels of wine
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    Toasting a good wine

    2008-03-01T00:00:00Z

    French chemists analyse how the toasting of oak staves used to make wine barrels affects the chemical composition of the wood and the final uncorked product