News and analysis – Page 36
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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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NewsPlastic shape shifter for smart stents
German and American researchers have developed temperature-controlled 'triple-shaped plastics'
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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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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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NewsProblem-based approach to analytical chemistry
Matthew Almond reviews this second edition of Practical environmental analysis
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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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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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NewsBologna in sight?
The House of Commons Education and Skills Select Committee launched an inquiry in November into the Bologna Process and its potential impact on UK HE
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NewsCO2 - a solution in sight?
Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are higher today than they have been at any time in the past 150,000 years
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NewsControversy in class
Ralph Levinson of the Institute of Education, London, has developed a useful model that provides a framework for teachers to use when teaching controversial socio-scientific issues in schools
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NewsElement 118 reported (again)
In 1999, scientists at the American Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory reported the synthesis of element 118...
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NewsHEFCE finds more cash
In November the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) announced an extra £75m for university science teaching over the next three years
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NewsLike father, like son
Stanford University's Roger Kornberg has followed in his father's footsteps by winning the 2006 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for unravelling the process by which RNA is transcribed from DNA to make proteins
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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.