News and analysis – Page 36
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NewsKey Stage 3 - teachers' choice
QCA is offering a less prescriptive curriculum at KS3 that could be tuned by teachers to meet the needs of all students. What does this new found freedom mean for science teachers?
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NewsRate of reaction
To inform approaches to teaching about chemical change researchers from the UK and Turkey have studied young people's understanding of reaction rate
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NewsRSC funding for research
Members (and non-member school teachers) can apply for grants of up to £2000 from the 2008 RSC Research Fund to support research or chemical education research
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NewsUS chemistry in question
Findings of a US National Research Council report suggest a problem of a sustainable supply of chemistry BScs will affect the future of US chemistry research
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NewsPlastic shape shifter for smart stents
German and American researchers have developed temperature-controlled 'triple-shaped plastics'
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NewsProblem-based approach to analytical chemistry
Matthew Almond reviews this second edition of Practical environmental analysis
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NewsQCA consults on KS3 review
QCA invites teachers to submit their views on its revised programme of study for KS3 science by April 30.
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NewsRSC to support student ambassadors scheme
To encourage more chemistry undergraduates to consider teaching as a career, the RSC is putting money into the Undergraduate Ambassadors Scheme
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NewsSalters' chemistry camps 2007
The Universities of St Andrews, Birmingham, Manchester, Ulster, York and Leeds will be hosting a four-day Salters' Chemistry Camp.
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NewsA day in the life of a development chemist: Morven McAlpine
Morven McAlpine has spent the past two years working for ICI Imagedata as a development chemist. She talks to James Berressem about her typical day
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NewsBird Flu's long tail could signal its end
US scientists map the long protein tail of the influenza A virus
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NewsDiscuss science and shape the future
A DTI-funded public engagement programme, Sciencehorizons, aims to broaden the debate on how developments in science and technology could be used in the future.
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NewsInteract with online cystal structures
A new, free online resource could help teachers introduce and illustrate to students the structural chemistry of course favourites.
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NewsMoseley landmark
Royal Society of Chemistry recognises importance of x-ray studies done by Henry Moseley at Oxford University site
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NewsRSC Bill Bryson prize 2007
The theme for this year's Royal Society of Chemistry's Bill Bryson prize for science communication is the science of travel.
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NewsSummer School
The Royal Society of Chemistry will be running an INSET materials summer school in London in July
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NewsNew Salters' teaching fellowships
In November at an awards ceremony held in London the Salters' Institute awarded its first-ever chemistry teacher fellowships to Sandra Clinton, Adrian Guy and Karen Tann.
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NewsPupils' views about science
A study has been carried out to look at pupils' opinions about science and technology