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Glackin, Melissa; Jones, Beth – School Science Review, 2012
This article reports the findings of a recent survey of how often south London secondary schools use local green spaces and parks for teaching science. Comparisons are made between these findings and those reported from a similar study of east London secondary schools in 2006. The article discusses how an external project responded to the needs…
Descriptors: Science Education, Secondary Schools, Science Departments, Surveys
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Scott, Jon; Maw, Stephen J. – Bioscience Education, 2009
There has been much recent interest in the extent to which the teaching in higher education delivered by non-academic staff has increased in the recent past. Within the Biosciences there has always been a tradition of engaging postgraduate students to support the delivery of some forms of teaching. In this paper we report on the findings of a…
Descriptors: Teaching Assistants, Graduate Students, Student Role, Biology
Plane, Jandelyn – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study explores the representation of women in computer science at the tertiary level through data collected about undergraduate computer science education at Kabul University in Afghanistan. Previous studies have theorized reasons for underrepresentation of women in computer science, and while many of these reasons are indeed present in…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Females, Focus Groups, Disproportionate Representation