Liberal Conspiracy has a good article up from Unity in response to the Schools Minister Sarah McCarthy-Fry's comments on the lack of schoolgirls opting to study sciences. He points out that science is science and that there really is no such thing as the 'girl-friendly' science that the Minister would like schools to teach. The scientific method is important and that requires a certain degree of r...

Post-graduates are to be brought into primary schools to help stimulate interest in science. The scheme was outlined as the Scottish Government launched its campaign to encourage more children to take up science.

HIGH-PROFILE Tory candidate Zac Goldsmith is facing calls to quit after admitting he has non-domiciled tax status.

The BBC struggled this morning with the Royal Chemistry Society’s Report claiming that modern science students at 16 do not have anything like the mathematical and scientific grounding their parents and grandparents had if they studied the O level syllabus. They accepted the evidence that the brightest modern

More pupils are opting to learn science than ever in English schools, but sector figures fear that successes in popularising science will be undermined by recent policy changes

Labour’s Shadow Home Office team have welcomed this morning’s damning report by the Commons Science and Technology Committee on the Tory-led government’s closure of the Forensic Science Service.

Liam Byrne MP, Labour's Chief Secretary to the Treasury, responding to confusion over whether or not the Conservatives are committed to tax breaks for married couples on the day of another Iain Duncan Smith report on marriage, said: "As another high-profile Tory tax promise falls into total disarray, the British people are beginning to see the great risk posed to the economy by the inexperien...

Liam Byrne MP, Labour's Chief Secretary to the Treasury, responding to confusion over whether or not the Conservatives are committed to tax breaks for married couples on the day of another Iain Duncan Smith report on marriage, said: "As another high-profile Tory tax promise falls into total disarray, the British people are beginning to see the great risk posed to the economy by the inexperien...

I have a difficult task ahead of me. That's trying to see through the image the local secondary schools present to see what they are actually like, how and what they teach and whether to entrust my children to them. I have made a reasonable living of my schooling in science and subsequent education and training as an Engineer. Some of my school colleagues went into the city ( I'm guessin...

The Tory leader was forced to restate his high-profile tax policy on marriage after earlier retreating from the commitment on a day the UK election battle over tax and spending plans began in earnest