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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

Science Diploma advances

Ken Gadd, science adviser on the Science Diploma Development Partnership (SDDP), gives us an insight into how the advanced Science Diploma is shaping up



New faces in RSC education

Recent restructuring at the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) and the creation of its new Science, Education and Industry (SEI) directorate several new staff have taken up roles rel...



Jade jewellery

Chemlingo

Peter Childs, University of Limerick, investigates words in chemistry. In this issue: shades of green



Fish and white wine

Soundbite molecules

Simon Cotton takes a look at those compounds that find themselves in the news or relate to our everyday lives. In this issue: white wine and fish



Web key

Web watch

Tony Tooth looks at some websites that may be of interest to chemistry teachers. In this issue: updates on some old favourites


Exhibition Chemistry

Strontium flame colour

Flame colours in burning hydrogen

Demonstrations to capture the student's imagination by Adrian Guy of Blundell's School. In this issue: Flame colours in burning hydrogen


The Elements

girl with ballons

The Elements

John Emsley, University of Cambridge, Takes you on a tour of the Periodic Table. In this issue: the inert element with extreme behaviour


Features

Medical students washing hands

New challenges for photocatalysts

Titania catalysts are being used to keep hospital surfaces clean and to produce hydrogen in solar cells


Reviews

Chemistry3: introducing inorganic, organic and physical chemistry

Andrew Burrows, John Holman, Andrew Parsons, Gwen Pilling and Gareth Price



Nuts and bolts of chemical education research

Diane M. Bunce and Renée S. Cole (eds)



Origin of chirality in the molecules of life

Albert Guijarro and Miguel Yus



Supramolecular chemistry (2nd edn)

Jonathan W. Steed and Jerry L. Atwood




Endpoint

Does chemistry have a maths problem?

Colin Osborne has the last word


Infochem

Infochem cover January 2010

InfoChem January 2010

In this month's pupil supplement: Snail pie; Did propofol kill Michael Jackson?; A day in the life of a research scientist