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Education in Chemistry

The only magazine in the UK aimed at teachers of chemistry at all levels. It is written by its readers for its readers, and covers the whole spectrum of chemistry teaching from balanced science in secondary courses to the final stages of undergraduate courses.

Education in Chemistry

Column

Countries signed up to the Bologna agreement highlighted in Orange

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



Dr Paul Wyatt, director of the Bristol ChemLabS

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



Depressed woman

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


Exhibition Chemistry

Wasp

Exhibition chemistry

Demonstrations to capture the student's imagination, by Adrian Guy of Blundell's School. In this issue: toxic hydrogen cyanide


The Elements

Magnesium symbol from the Visual Elements Periodic Table

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

nmr apparatus

The power of NMR: the beginnings

Originally a curiosity of the quantum world, NMR is now an essential tool for chemists, biochemists and clinicians



Multiple-choice paper and pencil

Multiple-choice tests - are they fit for purpose?

Of what value are multiple-choice tests in the new GCSE Science specifications?


Reviews



Looking through glass DVD

Alan Leadbetter




Endpoint

Triple science - the best option?

Colin Osborne has the last word


Infochem

InfoChem issue 111

InfoChem July 2008

In this month's pupil supplement: Artificial photosynthesis; Thomas Crown tries to avoid detection; A day in the life of a regulatroy affairs consultant