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.
Column
GCSE criteria under scrutiny
Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) launches consultation into the GCSE science criteria which could lead to a radical overhaul of specifications
Leading the way forward in chemical education
This year's winner of the Nyholm Prize for Education is Professor Tina Overton of the University of Hull
The chemistry PhD experience
This autumn sees the launch of 45 Doctoral Training Centres (DTCs) in science and engineering in 20 universities across the UK
Chemistry trails
Peter Borrows takes us on another excursion into local chemistry. In this issue: colloid chemistry at the coffee shop
Exhibition Chemistry
Soap from bacon - the dangers of alkaline solutions
Demonstrations to capture the student's imagination, by Adrian Guy of Blundell's School. In this issue: Soap from bacon - the dangers of alkaline solutions
The Elements
The Elements
John Emsley, University of Cambridge, takes you on a tour of the Periodic Table. In this issue: Can this most vicious of elements, Fluorine, be tamed?
Features
Survival of the fittest
Examples of natural products produced by organisms and plants to overcome competing species and predators provide chemical evidence for Charles Darwin's legacy of natural selection...
What is entropy?
What's the best way to introduce to your students this most misunderstood of thermodynamic properties?
Reviews
Salters' advanced chemistry chemical storylines A2 (3rd edn)
Derek Denby, Chris Otter and Kay Stephenson
Mathematics for physical chemistry: opening doors
Donald A. McQuarrie
Origins of life in the universe
Robert Jastrow and Michael Rampino
The chemistry of fireworks (2nd edn)
Michael S. Russell
Endpoint
Infochem
