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Science and mathematics education in Wales is to receive a boost after the government announced new funding for teaching programmes...
Posted on 10/04/2012 - [Read More...]
Primary school teachers could greatly improve their physics lessons if they adopted new computer software, research from the ESRC suggests...
Posted on 25/01/2012 - [Read More...]
Schools watchdog Ofsted has published a report that identifies what secondary teachers, schools and colleges are doing to provide high-quality science teaching...
Posted on 19/10/2011 - [Read More...]
Speaking to the HMC last week Lord Winston called on universities to share the responsibility of improving state schools' practical science education...
Posted on 12/10/2011 - [Read More...]
A leading authority has called on the government to intensify the recruitment drive for quality science and mathematics teachers to maintain growth in students taking the subjects...
Posted on 23/09/2011 - [Read More...]
A campaign has been launched by some of the top scientists in the UK which aims to get creationism removed entirely from teaching in science classrooms...
Posted on 19/09/2011 - [Read More...]
A Commons Select Committee has published the findings of its inquiry into science education, reporting that the practical lessons and field trips essential to developing scientists of the future are being ignored because of health and safety concerns...
Posted on 14/09/2011 - [Read More...]
Pushing students towards subjects such as science and maths could be counter-productive, it has been suggested....
Posted on 22/08/2011 - [Read More...]
The increase in the number of students taking science A-levels has been put down to the 'Brian Cox effect'....
Posted on 19/08/2011 - [Read More...]
Students at one Cornwall school have been taking part in a host of exciting experiments to celebrate science and engineering week....
Posted on 31/03/2011 - [Read More...]
Students from one Croydon school have taken part in a special event aimed at raising standards in science. ...
Posted on 29/03/2011 - [Read More...]
Design and technology (D&T) classes need to be modernised if they are to keep pace of global advances, education watchdog Ofsted has warned....
Posted on 25/03/2011 - [Read More...]
Young students in the north of England have reluctantly handed some rare samples of moon rock back to the Science and Technology Facilities Council. ...
Posted on 24/02/2011 - [Read More...]
Scientists at the Royal Society have called for basic neurology to be made part of teacher training courses in the UK. ...
Posted on 24/02/2011 - [Read More...]
Britain's top scientists have called for school science lessons to be made more appealing to pupils. ...
Posted on 17/02/2011 - [Read More...]