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 ...

New evidence shows that a worrying number of students are not experiencing a complete and authentic education in the sciences, due to a lack of resources for practical work. Research commissioned by ...

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 ...

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 ...

The experiment should be conducted in a clear and systematic way to ensure the data is complete and of a high quality. In an experiment into the relationship between force, mass and acceleration a toy ...

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 ...