A postcard from Birmingham

The Association for Science Education’s (ASE) flagship event each year is their annual conference in January. Over 2000 people visited the conference, which was hosted in Birmingham.

Best practice

Brian Cartwright, national lead science adviser for Ofsted, packed out a classroom with his lecture on best practice in science education. His talk was based on the report Maintaining Curiosity, published in November 2013, and subtitled ‘factors that promote achievement in science. It reported key findings from three years of school inspections and offered specific advice on how to improve science teaching.

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