Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pupils have less access to interactive science practicals as video demonstrations are being used instead, a report has suggested.

The national curriculum is being blamed for school children missing out on practical science lessons, research by EngineeringUK has found. Demands of the curriculum are the biggest barrier to ...

Too few students are offered practical science lessons, says the study The poorest pupils are most likely to miss out on practical science lessons in English schools, a study suggests. Over a quarter ...

The Royal Society of Chemistry is supplying free computer memory sticks, on request, to every state secondary school in the UK on which they will find a radical new virtual teaching tool to eradicate ...

Healthcare educators have developed effective ways to assess a range of practical skills in their learners. What can other science educators learn from their example? As a science educator, you will ...

Delegates will discuss the content and the implementation of the new GCSEs, including the implications of removing modules, having a greater focus on scientific knowledge and the inclusion of ...

Some 29% of GCSE science students said they rarely or never take part in practical ­experiments in school. The lack of hands-on teaching has been condemned as “absolutely unacceptable”. Around 58% ...

Laboratory work is an essential component of any science degree in higher education. This is to meet the demand to produce skilled graduates for industry and highly competent workers for research ...

Listen to the full series on BBC Sounds. It can be difficult to see the relationship between the variables from a results table so often the means are plotted on a graph or chart to analyse the ...

The poorest pupils are most likely to miss out on practical science lessons in English schools, a study suggests. Over a quarter of GCSE students take little or no part in practical science ...