Growing up, we all had to do all kinds of science projects in school. For Baby Boomers, here are several classic science projects that just about everyone had to do at least once.

Practical science lessons are being squeezed out by exam pressures on schools, says a science advisory body. The Council for Science and Technology is writing to the education secretary to warn about ...

In our major, annual survey of almost 2,000 science teachers and technicians, insufficient time (58%), challenging student behaviour (48%), and the cost of consumables and chemicals (43%) were cited ...

Julia Buckingham is chair of SCORE, a collaboration of science organisations made up of the Association for Science Education, the Institute of Physics, the Royal Society, the Royal Society of ...

The Global Chemistry Experiment, entitled “Water: A chemical solution”, asks primary and secondary school pupils to carry out experiments on water quality (testing its salinity and acidity, learning ...

I don’t know about you, but I look back rather nostalgically on the practical exams that I took as an 18 year old as part of my A-levels in physics and chemistry. At the time, I wasn’t looking forward ...

John Holman is Senior Education Adviser to The Wellcome Trust and former Director of the National Science Learning Centre. Science gives young people the tools to understand the world around us and ...