TEF vs. REF: are teaching and research now adversaries?
By Henry Lovett, policy & public affairs officer, The Physiological Society At the recent Labour, Conservative and SNP party conferences, The Physiological Society asked policy makers to consider...
View ArticlePlant Science at Christmas
Guest author Ian Street looks at the two occasions when the Royal Institution’s Christmas Lectures focused on plant science Inspiring future generations through science has been a key component of the...
View ArticleHow will environmental policy change post-Brexit?
“To protect nature, we need targets, investment and accountability, not grand promises with zero detail,” said activist lawyer and ClientEarth chief executive James Thornton to BBC News last week. He...
View ArticlePolicy Lunchbox: unlocking teaching development
At the last Policy Lunchbox we welcomed David Weston, Chief Executive of the Teacher Development Trust, to explore professional development in teaching and how we can better support teachers....
View ArticleBringing pantomime into the biology lecture theatre
Dr. Ian Turner, our 2017 HE Bioscience Teacher of the Year, is a National Teaching Fellow based at the University of Derby. He is currently Head of Forensic Science but his main teaching areas are...
View ArticleEngaging young people with science: a science capital approach
For our last Policy Lunchbox, we were joined by Professor Louise Archer, the Karl Mannheim Professor of Sociology of Education at the UCL Institute of Education. Louise’s talk focused on the Aspires2...
View ArticleIs my grade 9 an A*? Making sense of science qualification reforms
Over the last few years teachers and students in England have seen significant changes to A Levels and GCSEs in the sciences as reformed qualifications have been phased in. The cohort receiving GCSE...
View Article‘To believe is to be able’
A study of developing self-efficacy in undergraduate biologists at the University of Hull by the HE Bioscience Teacher of the Year, Dominic Henri. I strongly believe that the process of Higher...
View ArticleEngaging the Silent Majority
How can you ensure all students in a teaching session have the opportunity to engage, be involved and interact? This is the question that I wanted to address when I set out to understand why students...
View ArticleInterning with the education policy team at the RSB
The recent wave of Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) schemes have paved new ground for the enrichment of doctoral learning through extended transferable skills programmes. Through this scheme, I was...
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