July 2008
Vol 45, No 4. Selected articles, reviews and InfoChem available online to all. Full issue available online to subscribers.
Column
Bologna reflections
Recent research by RSC's Mastering Bologna Group calls for more clarity in learning outcomes of UK chemistry degrees to enable students to be successful in continental Europe
Londoners take top spot in final
Students from Highgate School, London, overcame strong competition from a field of 27 secondary school teams to take first prize at this year's Top of the Bench national final
Extra cash for chemistry in the short term
The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) has awarded an additional £1.65m to the Chemistry for our future (CFOF) programme
Pfizer to support maths in HE
Pfizer-RSC collaborative project, Discover chemistry, to investigate maths provision in UK undergraduate chemistry courses
Innovation in the lab earns HE award
University of Bristol's Paul Wyatt is the winner of the 2008 RSC Education Division's Higher Education award
What benefits subject-specific CPD?
Independent report finds that teachers who take part in RSC's Chemistry for non-specialists (CFNS) become more confident in their teaching of chemistry and practical chemistry
In brief
Items: Various short items
Chemlingo
Peter Childs, University of Limerick, investigates words in chemistry. In this issue: no sweat
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: Prozac problems
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, July 2008
Exhibition Chemistry
Toxic hydrogen cyanide
Demonstrations to capture the student's imagination, by Adrian Guy of Blundell's School. In this issue: toxic hydrogen cyanide
The Elements
The Elements
John Emsley, University of Cambridge, takes you on a tour of the periodic table. In this issue: Once the destroyer of cities, magnesium is now an energy saver
Features
The power of NMR: the beginnings
Originally a curiosity of the quantum world, NMR is now an essential tool for chemists, biochemists and clinicians
Nanomedicine arrives
Nanoscale chemical entities target the building blocks of biology with medicinal consequences
Multiple-choice tests - are they fit for purpose?
Of what value are multiple-choice tests in the new GCSE Science specifications?
Antimony revisited
The intriguing chemistry of antimony, one of the earliest elements to be discovered
E-learning in practice
Making the most of the Internet and ICT to support teaching and learning in science
Distillates
Lead-free gun crime
US forensic chemists develop a fast and cheap method for identifying gunshot residues
Reviews
The fall and rise of aspirin - the wonder drug
Peter Sheldon
Looking through glass DVD
Alan Leadbetter
The chemistry maths book (2nd edn)
Erich Steiner
Endpoint
Triple science - the best option?
Colin Osborne has the last word
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