Posts Tagged ‘Africa’
IOP for Africa – the student’s perspective
Portia Nketia is a final-year student at Ada Secondary High School, Ghana. Here she talks about what difference IOP for Africa’s educational programme has made to her. “Physics used to be really hard for me – I couldn’t see what a lot of the theory meant or how it worked. Now we do lots of [...]
IOP abroad: practical physics training for Ethiopian teachers
As part of the IOP’s involvement in Ethiopia, a teacher training session was held last month to demonstrate a range of equipment to Ethiopian physics teachers. The equipment was subsequently donated to the participating schools. Although the training was led by Christine Cleave (Head of Physics, Derby High School), he was assisted by one of the Ethiopian teachers, Endale [...]
WANTED – spare classroom science equipment for schools in Africa
We are setting up a project that aims to support the IOP’s Physics For A Better World initiative by aiming to collect spare or unwanted science equipment from UK schools and ship it to IOP resource centres in various African countries. Through the initiative we are helping to set up and implement work schemes for classrooms, and our local [...]
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, [...]
