Innovation in the lab earns HE award

Dr Paul Wyatt, director of the Bristol ChemLabS

Source: Richard Edwards, University of Bristol

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

Paul Wyatt receives his award and ?250 for his 'continuing high quality contribution and innovation to chemistry in higher education' and the award citation states that 'he is to be commended for his leadership in the Bristol ChemLabS CETL [Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning] project and for the quality of his personal teaching'. The aim of the award is to identify excellent HE chemistry teachers and disseminate good practice in teaching throughout the UK. As part of his award Wyatt will visit five universities in the UK to talk on: Teaching innovations - using technology to enrich the traditional .    

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