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December 11, 2015
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Scottish Education Awards 2016

Sciences, Technologies, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Award The Scottish Education Awards recognise schools and centres that have developed a vibrant and progressive culture and climate of continuous innovation. The culture and ethos should promote respect, ambition and achievement while improving … Continue reading

December 3, 2015
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Assessment for Learning in STEM Teaching

  A free online course facilitated by Future Learn and led by Dylan Wiliam and Christine Harrison, to help STEM teachers get to grips with Assessment for Learning. Assessment for Learning is a term that’s widely used in education, but applied … Continue reading

December 1, 2015
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ASE Scotland Annual Conference 2016, 5th March 2106, Robert Gordon’s College, Aberdeen

The ASE Scotland Annual Conference is a festival of best practice in science education for everyone with an interest- teachers, technicians, lecturers, trainees, advisors, CPD suppliers and more. Keynotes confirmed including Global Teaching Prize finalist, Richard Spencer. Bookings now open. … Continue reading

December 1, 2015
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Promoting the Uptake of Girls into Physics and Engineering

If your school is interested in bringing a group of girls to this event at Vale of Leven Academy on Friday 12th February 2016 from 10 am to 2.30 pm then please contact Rhona McCaughey at Rhona.McCaughey@west-dunbarton.gov.uk This is another of the successful events … Continue reading

November 27, 2015
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Opening Doors: Improving gender balance in the school environment

Opening Doors is co-funded by the IOP and Government Equalities Office, running from 2014 to 2015. The project is not specific to physics, or even science, but focuses on developing a whole-school approach to addressing gender imbalance. The project has … Continue reading

November 26, 2015
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Topical Science – Oxygen discovered on a comet.

Last month, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced that the Rosetta mission had discovered molecular oxygen on the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. Tigtag and Twig can support the teaching of this event and help bring topical science into your classroom. Further … Continue reading

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