BUDDING scientists in North Lincolnshire have been concocting Harry Potter-like potions and carrying out exciting experiments to mark an explosive National Chemistry Week. The event is a biennial celebration of the chemical sciences and aims to promote a positive image of chemistry and increase public understand of how science touches our everyday lives.
As a child Steven Rowland used to run round Devon devising his own chemistry experiments. Fast forward a few decades and add some seriously highbrow academic qualifications, and the passion for chemistry is still there - as are the experiments.
HAIR-RAISER: Students are celebrating National Science and Engineering Week. Thomas Alleyne's High School laid on a series of science workshops to mark the event. The workshops saw pupils conduct physics experiments, chemistry explosions and rat dissections. Simon Crum, chemistry teacher at the school in Dove Bank, Uttoxeter, said: "We put on the sessions because we want to give the students the chance to take part in something that is not on the curriculum.
THE widow of a former chemistry lecturer who died as a result of the experiments he performed during his classes has secured a significant legal victory. Mary Sellwood's husband, Jim, was a senior lecturer at York St John University from 1963 to 1975. He died in November 2008 from mesothelioma, a type of cancer caused by exposure to asbestos.
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The story: Teachers in Cheltenham say they are wasting valuable teaching time filling in forms and carrying out health and safety checks. Some of the town's top head teachers say the increase in red tape is undermining their ability to do their jobs properly. Vicky Tuck of Cheltenham Ladies' College, said regulations were often "burdensome". Comments: I AGREE with Ms Tuck wholeheartedly - it's time children learned that as adults they must take responsibility for themselves. SOFTHED Inspector, Gloucester AS far as CRB checks go, unless parents have every adult checked who walks through their front door, including relatives, then the exercise is pointless. Is it not a fact that statistics show most abuse occurs within families? Miserable, Cheltenham EVERY business has to comply with heal...
Teachers can pick up tips on how to put the fizz into physics and the sparkle into chemistry experiments after a science project was captured on film. The "how science works" project is a collaboration between five secondary schools, the Keele University-based West Midlands science learning centre, and Creative Partnerships.
For months Heather Bennett bore her husband Brian's daily chemistry experiments with good humour. After all, he was working on a wonder cream to cure a skin complaint she was suffering from.
JOSEPHINE HART is known for short, spare novels centred on the tangled love lives of metrosexuals. In her latest, a study of family grief, she draws instead on her childhood in deepest Ireland. It begins with the dying agonies of a boy fatally injured in an explosion caused by his home chemistry experiments. Hart lost one of her brothers while young, and her depiction of the destructive effects of the death of a child on the family has a visceral ring of truth.
MICROSCOPES. What does that word conjure up for you? Perhaps nostalgic thoughts of school days and madcap experiments with glass slides and clunky bits of instrumentation in chemistry laboratories. As memory serves, they were unwieldy black metal creatures with twiddly knobs and set on a cast iron base.
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