Chemistry for all?
Rachel Brazil reports on the RSC’s five-year project to see whether students from disadvantaged backgrounds can be encouraged to study chemistry
Chemistry degrees and careers seem out of reach for many students from disadvantaged backgrounds. In an ambitious five-year £1 million project, Chemistry for All, the Royal Society of Chemistry has experimented with interventions that could help these students aspire to study chemistry. A report from the accompanying research team has been published and, despite many difficulties, ‘the most important finding was that all the money and effort that the RSC [invested] worked’.