All Education articles – Page 2
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Careers
Work or study… or work and study?
How employers are helping employees to gain new qualifications, including PhDs
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News
Bangor University will demolish closed-down chemistry tower
Chemistry building will be removed three years after the Welsh university decided to close the 135-year-old department to save money
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News
Eminent NYU chemist fired after students complain about taxing organic chemistry course
Maitland Jones’s sacking highlights tensions between student expectations, academic rigour and teaching styles
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Opinion
Do science courses need hands-on labs to be effective?
The practical lab is where abstract theory connects to physical reality
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Research
3D printing allows blind chemists to visualise scientific data
Lithophanes produced with a basic 3D printer can make research findings more accessible
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Opinion
Taking the foundation course route
Students should be told more about the different paths to a career in chemistry
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Careers
The many career benefits of apprenticeships
On-the-job training combined with a qualification provides apprentices with a solid first step on the scientific career ladder
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Opinion
Letters: July 2022
Readers call for international cooperation, near-miss reporting and less emphasis on deriving equations
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Opinion
Teaching-focused staff contribute to REF results too
But are often overlooked in celebrations of research excellence
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Opinion
The importance of providing young people with mental health support
Do you feel safe openly discussing your mental health with your colleagues at work?
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Opinion
Bringing citizen science into school – and to the beach
A coastal project to contextualise concerns about pollutants and microplastics
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Careers
Making research environments more inclusive to deaf and hard of hearing students
Todd Pagano helps open up the world of chemistry for students at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf
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Research
High school students design a bottle that turns seawater into drinking water
Mangrove trees inspire thermal and membrane-based desalination system
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Opinion
Outdated practical techniques still have lessons to teach
Understanding old methods provides valuable insights into the new
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Opinion
Supawan Tantayanon: ‘I designed my own portable lab’
The green chemistry pioneer on making labs safer, designing a portable lab and her unusual way of cooking
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Opinion
It’s time to ban staff–student relationships
A policy of discouragement doesn’t go far enough towards tackling sexual misconduct
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News
Long-awaited higher education reforms leave universities facing funding squeeze
Freeze on tuition fees worries UK universities, while there are fears loan changes will hit students
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Opinion
Zafra Lerman: ‘I used art, music, dance, drama, poetry, animation, anything’
The influential science diplomat on teaching chemistry through the arts and doing almost impossible things