Making a Difference
Policy
Policy and Consultations
The Institute is committed to improving physics education in schools and colleges. One route for doing this is to engage in debate with government and its agencies. In recent years the Education Department has drafted responses on behalf of the Institute to consultation documents from the QCA, TTA and DfES, and through the Scottish and Irish Branch Committees, to consultation documents issued by the Scottish Executive and the Irish Department of Education and Science. We try to work closely with colleagues from other organisations such as the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Institute of Biology etc. to maximise the impact of responses.
Reports
- Girls in the Physics Classroom
The number of girls who continue with physics after the age of 16 is a major concern. The Institute commissioned a review of the research to see if there were any strategies that might be successful in encouraging girls to study physics. The results of this review were published in June 2006.
Girls in Physics - Key Messages
Girls in the Physics Classroom: A Teachers’ Guide for Action
Girls in the Physics Classroom: Videos
- Shaping the Future Booklet Series
The Institute has published a set of five booklets which aim to promote debate and ideas about the way forward for physics education in schools and colleges, in the next decade and beyond.
Topics in the series span five clusters of concerns:
- teaching specific topics in physics - from a contemporary perspective
- pedagogical issues
- recruiting and supporting physics teachers
- course and institutional structures
- responding to long term social and industrial trends
For more information about the five titles in the series please click on the links below:
Revitalising Physics Education
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