January 2007
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Column
Bologna in sight?
The House of Commons Education and Skills Select Committee launched an inquiry in November into the Bologna Process and its potential impact on UK HE.
Scottish Parliament looks ahead
Over 300 people came together in Edinburgh, in November, to discuss and debate the key scientific issues that will face the next Scottish Parliament and Scottish Executive from May...
Like father, like son
Stanford University's Roger Kornberg has followed in his father's footsteps by winning the 2006 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for unravelling the process by which RNA is transcribed fr...
New Salters' teaching fellowships
In November at an awards ceremony held in London the Salters' Institute awarded its first-ever chemistry teacher fellowships to Sandra Clinton, Adrian Guy and Karen Tann.
HEFCE finds more cash
In November the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) announced an extra £75m for university science teaching over the next three years
Element 118 reported (again)
In 1999, scientists at the American Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory reported the synthesis of element 118
C:TNG to offer Chemistry at Work events
An RSC Chemistry at Work event for 14-19-year olds, held in November, marked the launch of a two-year project to expand these events in England.
RSC to launch e-mentoring scheme for students
From the end of this month school and college students will have the opportunity to receive up-to-date information and advice on studying chemistry in HE and careers in chemistry t...
HE science centre opens
In November London Metropolitan University opened the doors of its new £30 million science centre which is home to the Superlab, a state-of-the-art teaching lab with room for 280 s...
RSC launches ChemNet
Post-16 students studying chemistry in the UK can now join the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) ChemNet initiative
RSC Teaching awards 2007
The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) is inviting nominations for the 2007 round of its two annual teaching awards
In brief
Items: Various short items
In search of solutions
Put your questions on chemistry teaching to our experts. In this issue: CO2 emissions and hydration isomers of chromium(III) chloride
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: hydrogen peroxide
Chemlingo
Peter Childs, University of Limerick, investigates words in chemistry. In this issue: waters of oblivion
Web watch
Tony Tooth, chemistry teacher at The King's School in Ely, takes a look at some websites that may be of interest to chemistry teachers.
Letters
Letters
Education in Chemistry Letters, January 2007
Exhibition Chemistry
Exhibition chemistry
Demonstrations designed to capture the student's imagination, by Colin Baker of Bedford School. In this issue: the silver mirror test
Features
Drugs for dementia
About 10 per cent of men and women over 65, and nearly half of those over 80, have Alzheimer's disease
Molecular computers - tomorrow's technology?
As the miniaturisation of silicon chips fast approaches its limit chemists are copying Nature in attempt to build computers atom by atom, molecule by molecule
Phenols in medicine
Phenol encountered in school or college chemistry laboratories demands special respect on account of its toxic and corrosive nature. But phenol and its derivatives do have a few me...
Investigating activation energies
A challenge for post-16 students to investigate the activation energies of the enzyme-catalysed and the inorganic-catalysed decomposition of hydrogen peroxide
Reviews
Cool cat chem cards: making chemistry fun
Caroline Griffiths and John Griffiths
Maths for chemistry
Paul Monk
Environmental chemistry: a global perspective (2nd edn)
Gary W. vanLoon and Stephen J. Duffy
Let's talk chemistry
John Packer and Bernard Scott
Maths for chemists
Maths for chemists - what every chemistry student needs to know
Tips for teaching maths skills to our future chemists, by Paul Yates of Keele University In this issue: quantity calculus
Distillates
Controversy in class
Ralph Levinson of the Institute of Education, London, has developed a useful model that provides a framework for teachers to use when teaching controversial socio-scientific issues...
Pupils' views about science
A study has been carried out to look at pupils' opinions about science and technology
Keeping pace with technology
Sara Hennessy of Cambridge University has looked at ways that teachers can integrate ICT into their teaching of science
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