Category Archives: Physics Education
In the community:Physics in Rwanda
Nature and the Institute of Physics (IOP) are working together to provide equipment for teaching physics in Rwanda. Funded by the IOP, volunteer physics teacher David Richardson started a project in 2005 that donated equipment to one school in Rwanda’s capital, Kigali.
Today, a local workshop funded by Nature and the IOP builds 100 sets of [...]
Today’s physics news: Thursday, 4 February
A-level physics is not available at one in four schools
Peter Main, Institute of Physics, is quoted in the Times and the Independent blaming “incoherent” policy changes for a shortage of teachers leaving around 500 secondary schools unable to offer A-level physics
The Times
The Independent
Saturn mission ‘extended again
The US space agency Nasa has extended the international Cassini-Huygens [...]
Health Secretary launches universities’ science partnership
Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon spoke at Strathclyde at the official launch of a venture capitalising on the academic and commercial strengths of lasers, optics and semiconductors.
Ms Sturgeon launched the partnership, known as SU2P, a venture between academic institutions in Scotland and California aimed at extracting economic impact from their joint research portfolio in photonics and [...]
Marvin and Milo go to Africa
Imagine this… A school with no running water, where the labs have just basic apparatus, no gas, one power point each, and only sporadic electricity. This is the situation at the Kabale School, Bukoba, Tanzania, which faced David Morgan & Christine Forbes - a science teacher & a chemistry technician from The Thomas Hardye School, Dorchester - when challenged to teach a 3 [...]
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Physics in a Primary School