[Phys-L] Fwd: serious decline in number of students taking physics in UK schools

[jbellina <jbellina@SAINTMARYS.EDU>]

Perhaps of interest,

joe

Joseph J. Bellina, Jr. Ph.D.
Professor of Physics
Saint Mary's College
Notre Dame, IN 46556

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> From: Eric Scerri <scerri@CHEM.UCLA.EDU>
> Date: November 21, 2005 9:33:07 PM EST
> To: CHEMED-L@MAILER.UWF.EDU
> Subject: serious decline in number of students taking physics in UK
> schools
> Reply-To: Chemistry Education Discussion List <CHEMED-
> L@MAILER.UWF.EDU>
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> You may want to take a look at this alarming article regarding the
> teaching of physics in UK high schools.
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> http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1881426,00.html
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> This from the country that produced the physicists Maxwell, JJ
> Thomson, Rutherford, Dirac, Hoyle, and Eddington to name just a few!
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> Dr. Eric Scerri,
> Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry,
> UCLA,
> Los Angeles,
> CA 90095-1569
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> E-mail scerri@chem.ucla.edu
> Tel: 310 206 7443
>
> Web Page
> http://www.chem.ucla.edu/dept/Faculty/scerri/
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> Editor of Foundations of Chemistry,
>
> http://www.springer.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/
> 0,11855,5-0-70-35545882-0,00.h
>
> Also see International Society for the Philosophy of Chemistry
> http://ispc.sas.upenn.edu/
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