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British Science Week 2025

2025-02-25T00:08:00+00:00By Georgia Murphy

Prepare for and celebrate the theme of change and adapt during 7–16 March

National Careers Week 2025

2025-02-14T06:07:00+00:00By Georgia Murphy

Get ready for National Careers Week, taking place between 3–8 March 2025, with all the Royal Society of Chemistry has to offer

RSC initial teacher training scholarships open for 2025/26

2025-01-21T06:54:00+00:00By Katie Kay

Everything you need to know about supporting Royal Society of Chemistry scholars

Introducing the Education publishing editorial board

2024-12-04T06:06:00+00:00By Juliet Kennard and Lisa Clatworthy

Find out how the different perspectives on the editorial board help develop our articles and resources

RSC shares the 2024 Science Teaching Survey’s findings

2024-11-27T13:04:00+00:00By Georgia Murphy

Science teachers and technicians in the UK and Ireland provide valuable information about the trends and challenges on the profession

RSC announces 2024 Education Prize winners

2024-11-20T06:08:00+00:00By Georgia Murphy

Celebrate the winners of the 2024 Excellence in Education Prizes and The Horizon Prizes for Education

Events in your region in October 2024

2024-10-22T08:24:00+01:00

Join us for the ASE West of England Science Convention and discover exciting workshops for primary and secondary school teachers and technicians

RSC publishes Popping good chemistry investigation in memory of beloved colleague

2024-10-15T05:42:00+01:00By Georgia Murphy

Learn more about the experiment and our late, beloved colleague Declan McGeown’s passion for science

Chemistry Week 2024

2024-09-23T15:26:00+01:00By Georgia Murphy

Presentations, experiments and funding opportunities from the Royal Society of Chemistry to celebrate this November

UK students win silver medals at 56th International Chemistry Olympiad

2024-08-15T06:40:00+01:00By Georgia Murphy

Dedication and hard work pay off for the UK team at the Olympiad final

RSC maps teaching resources to T-level qualifications

2024-08-08T07:13:00+01:00By Juliet Kennard

Use our curriculum explorer to find resources by topic and subtopic for science and healthcare science T-levels

Connecting school leaders and RSC members

2024-06-27T07:40:00+01:00By Deborah van Wyk

Find out how the RSC’s Leadership mentoring programme can help you progress

Yet more teachers empowered by RSC fund

2024-04-05T11:13:00+01:00By Lisa Clatworthy

32 initiatives to strengthen local chemistry teaching get go ahead

Brighton College is Top of the Bench

2024-03-20T09:36:00+00:00By Deborah van Wyk

Winners and runners-up announced in the RSC’s 2024 Top of the Bench competition

2024 Chemistry Olympiad round one results

2024-03-01T16:00:00+00:00By Deborah van Wyk

Grade boundaries revealed for annual Royal Society of Chemistry Olympiad competition

National Careers Week 2024

2024-02-29T09:43:00+00:00By Emma Lumb

Use this opportunity to encourage your students to explore the many career opportunities available in the chemical sciences

The latest news and articles from Education in Chemistry

Demonstrate electrochemistry with a gravity cell

2025-02-24T06:35:00+00:00By Declan Fleming

Video, kit list and teaching tips to set up a one-beaker copper–zinc voltaic cell to explore redox reactions

Breakthrough method produces flexible diamond films

2025-02-21T06:14:00+00:00By Nina Notman

New method shows promise for mass producing ultrathin diamond films for use in the electronic industry

How metacognition improves student engagement and outcomes

2025-02-18T06:02:00+00:00By Jane Essex

Two strategies to improve learners’ thinking about thinking when solving chemistry problems

The changing post-16 landscape

2025-02-13T06:15:00+00:00By Emma Davies

Following a review of post-16 qualifications in England, the options are changing and AAQs loom on the horizon for science teachers and learners

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