July 2006
Full issue available online.
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A-level science - practical sense
Over 1000 people from the science community responded to the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority's (QCA) recent consultation on its revised criteria for GCE AS/A-levels.
Chemistry: the next generation (C:TNG) rolls out to three more regions
Chemistry: the next generation (C:TNG), the Aimhigher chemistry outreach initiative run and led by the RSC, is rolling out to three new regions in England.
RSC rewards innovative HE teachers
Dr Andrew Parsons (University of York) and Dr Linda Morris (University of Dundee) are the recipients of the 2006 RSC Education Division Higher Education Teaching Awards.
Phil Copley - applying influence
Phil Copley is the sole recipient of the 2006 RSC Schools Education Award for his 'demonstrably excellent teaching and engagement'.
Nottingham Trent makes the Eurobachelor grade
In April the department of chemistry at Nottingham Trent University (NTU) became the first HE chemistry department in the UK to be able to award the Eurobachelor label to its chemi...
Enhance pupils' experiences of chemistry with RSC grants
The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Research Fund Committee is inviting member and non-member chemistry teachers to apply for grants of up to £1200 to support research projects in...
RSC teacher fellow 2006-07
The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) teacher fellow for 2006-07 is Emma Woodley, who is a chemistry teacher at St Marylebone School, London. Woodley will be based at the Institute ...
Final call for SET awards
The closing date for entries to the 2006 Science Engineering and Technology (SET) Student of the Year awards is Friday 21 July. Organised by the World Leadership Forum, the competi...
ChemCareers2006
Undergraduates studying for chemistry-related degrees are invited to attend ChemCareers 2006 to be held at the Great Hall, University of Birmingham on 11 November 2006.
Short items
Short items
Product review
In this column John Emsley looks at the chemistry behind familiar, everyday products . In this issue: hair restorers.
Soundbite molecules
Simon Cotton, teacher at Uppingham School, takes a look at those compounds that find themselves in the news or relate to our everyday lives. In this issue: benzene.
Chemistry trails
Peter Borrows brings us another excursion into local chemistry. In this issue: boring boron?
Did you know?
Ted Lister, chemical education consultant, shares anecdotes and 'did you knows' to help you add that 'wow' factor to your lessons. In this issue: Winchester bottles.
Web watch
Wilson Flood, chemistry education consultant, takes a look at some websites of interest to chemistry teachers.
Prize crossword puzzle
Readers are invited to solve Education in Chemistry's teacher crossword, set by Richard Nash
Letters
Letters
Education in Chemistry Letters, July 2006
Exhibition Chemistry
Fluorescence
In this series, Colin Baker of Bedford School provides spectacular demonstrations, designed to capture the student's imagination. The demonstrations are easy to prepare, safe to di...
Features
Artemisinin and a new generation of antimalarial drugs
Every year between one and two million people - mainly children - living in the tropics and subtropics die of malaria.
Research in schools
Science for the 21st Century Initiative (SCI) aims to cultivate an interest in, and knowledge of, the wider aspects of science and technology among A-level students.
Biting insects - a challenge for chemists
In many parts of the world biting insects are major disease vectors, being the source of malaria and yellow fever for example, though in the UK they are mainly just a nuisance.
Amedeo Avogadro 1776-1856
This year marks the 150th anniversary of the death of the Italian chemical physicist, Amedeo Avogadro.
Reviews
Hodder science platinum pupil's book C
Nigel Hislop, David Brodie and James Williams
Teaching secondary science (2nd edn)
Keith Ross, Liz Lakin and Peter Callaghan
Toxin: the cunning of bacterial poisons
Alistair Lax
Phosphorus world CD-ROM
D. E. C. Corbridge
Distillates
A whiff of sex
Medicinal chemists have been searching for a 'female Viagra' ever since GPs began prescribing the famous blue pills for erectile dysfunction in men.
Hard core, soft core
A new type of microscopic particle, which has a hard shell and a soft core, that changes structure depending on its temperature has been developed.
Metals link like carbon
Chemists have, until now, considered the element carbon to be fairly unique in being able to form chains of atoms linked through covalent bonds.
Astrobiology, on the other hand
Some molecules exist in handed, or chiral, left- and right-handed forms.
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