Headteachers and experts questioned on low uptake of physics and maths by girls
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  • May 13, 2022
The real reasons fewer girls choose maths and physics at school: stereotypes, confidence and role models
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  • May 9, 2022
Katherine Birbalsingh claims female pupils shun physics because they are more 'empathetic' than boys
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  • Apr 29, 2022
Schools can help eradicate outdated myth that physics isn’t for girls
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  • Apr 28, 2022
Birbalsingh clarifies girls' choices on maths and physics A-levels
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  • Apr 28, 2022
Girls and physics: what Scottish data tells us
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  • Apr 28, 2022
Girls don’t choose A-level physics because they dislike ‘hard maths’, claims social mobility tsar
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  • Apr 28, 2022
Katharine Birbalsingh: Girls dislike hard maths, says education adviser
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  • Apr 27, 2022
Social mobility head Katharine Birbalsingh claims girls shun physics because ‘there’s a lot of hard maths’
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  • Apr 27, 2022
Social mobility tsar: Girls shun physics due to 'hard maths'
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  • Apr 27, 2022
‘Strictest headteacher’ Katharine Birbalsingh claims hard maths puts girls off physics
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  • Apr 27, 2022
Is A level maths a requirement for A level physics and computer science?
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  • Apr 26, 2022
World’s most powerful particle accelerator comes back to life
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  • Apr 22, 2022
Engineers encouraged to become physics teachers
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  • Mar 11, 2022
New scheme to boost physics teacher numbers
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  • Feb 17, 2022
Physics teacher shortage needs 'urgent' action, DfE told
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  • Jan 28, 2022
Stimulating Physics Network (Phase 4 and 5) evaluation report
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  • Jan 11, 2022
Institute of Physics puts skills at centre of latest reinvention
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  • Nov 1, 2021
Help, I have to teach physics this year!
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  • Jul 27, 2021
Sheffield University considering physics curriculum overhaul
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  • Apr 25, 2021
Oxford renames 120-year-old Wykeham professorship for Tencent, Chinese software company
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  • Feb 9, 2021
Cognitive load and video motion analysis with tablets in physics
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  • Jul 21, 2020
Claim a payment for teaching maths or physics
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  • Jan 28, 2020
Nobel winner: explaining physics to public a ‘waste of time’
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  • Jul 22, 2019
It's time to take a long view on the recruitment crisis
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  • Jun 10, 2019
Could this be the answer to the Stem teacher shortage?
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  • Jun 4, 2019
Cash incentives for maths and physics teachers
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  • May 23, 2019
Teachers will get £2,000 deprived area boost
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  • May 23, 2019
Cash incentives for maths and physics teachers
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  • May 23, 2019
Apply for mathematics and physics teacher retention payments
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  • May 23, 2019
Maths and physics teachers to get £2K retention payments
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  • May 23, 2019
New maths and physics teachers will get an extra £2,000 a year if they work in 'tough' areas
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  • May 23, 2019
New maths and physics teachers will get £2k annual ‘incentive’ payment
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  • May 23, 2019
Teachers get £2,000 extra to work in deprived areas
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  • May 23, 2019
Recruit a qualified maths or physics teacher from abroad
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  • Apr 26, 2019
Wales: What does the world of everyday physics look like?
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  • Apr 17, 2019
Schools invited to help close physics gender gap
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  • Apr 1, 2019
Teacher training targets missed in most secondary subjects
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  • Nov 29, 2018
Physics teacher praised for inspiring passion for the subject in young girls
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  • Oct 27, 2018
'How I quadrupled the girls in my classes taking physics A level - to four'
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  • Oct 12, 2018
Weekly digest #127: Women in physics
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  • Oct 7, 2018
Physics does have a women problem – and it's not rocket science to work out why
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  • Oct 1, 2018
Get support to increase the take-up of A level physics
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  • Sep 21, 2018
Join the Future Physics Leaders programme to develop as a specialist
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  • Sep 21, 2018
Help GCSE and A level students transition to higher level physics
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  • Sep 21, 2018
Top astronomer donates £2.3 milllion prize to young physicists
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Physics Awards
  • Sep 6, 2018
Research round-up (31 August 2018)
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  • Sep 4, 2018
Physics teachers should be paid more to attract and retain talent – report
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  • Aug 30, 2018
Calls for more balanced curriculum to encourage more school leavers into STEM undergraduate courses
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  • Aug 23, 2018
Tiered 9 to 1 GCSEs in languages and sciences, 2018
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  • Aug 23, 2018
Why don’t more girls study maths and physics?
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  • Aug 22, 2018
Girls with top science GCSEs 'deterred from study at higher level'
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  • Aug 22, 2018
A-Levels: Uptake in Maths and Physics is welcome news but exams alone limit ‘work-readiness’ of future engineers
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  • Aug 16, 2018
It’s time to ‘open up physics’ if we want to bring in more girls and shift the subject’s declining uptake
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  • Aug 15, 2018
It’s time to ‘open up physics’ if we want to bring in more girls and shift the subject’s declining uptake  
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  • Aug 15, 2018
Balancing Physics: DfE is trying to encourage more girls to study physics
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  • Aug 10, 2018
Lack of physics teachers blamed for gender gap
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  • Aug 10, 2018
Boys still outnumber girls in A-level physics
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  • Aug 10, 2018
Two in five physics teachers do not hold degree in the science, figures show
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Physics Qualifications
  • Jun 28, 2018
STEM international teacher recruitment programme
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  • Jun 19, 2018
New fellowships for exceptional students launched in memory of Professor Stephen Hawking
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Fellowships Funding Research UKRI Maths Physics
  • Jun 11, 2018
'Girls don't do physics because it's boring'
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Physics Gender gap STEM
  • May 21, 2018
How physics gender gap starts in the classroom
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  • May 17, 2018
Physics teaching reimagined by international exchange website
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  • May 9, 2018
Written answer from Nick Gibb re steps being taken to increase the uptake of physics and chemistry at A-level
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  • Apr 19, 2018
New physics lessons help girls catch up
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Physics Gender gap
  • Mar 27, 2018
Schools can get £500 to offer undergraduate internships in maths and physics teaching
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Internships Finances Maths Physics Teaching Grants Undergraduates STEM Funding
  • Dec 7, 2017
Cambridge is top UK university for physics in table dominated by US
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Cambridge University Physics University rankings
  • Nov 27, 2017
Wycombe High School Academies Trust to lead England’s first Mathematics and Physics SCITT
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  • Oct 31, 2017
Universities! Here's your treachery-free post-Brexit syllabus
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  • Oct 26, 2017
Spare our blushes! SRE teacher training needed before 2019
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  • Oct 22, 2017
Boys are better at physics because they learn about 'projection' while going to the toilet, researchers say
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  • Sep 15, 2017
Government to spend £10m recruiting 600 foreign teachers to fill maths, physics and languages roles
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  • Jul 15, 2017
Bids sought for £10m foreign teacher recruitment drive
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  • Jul 13, 2017
Pupils fly four-seater plane as part of year-long STEM initiative
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  • Jul 9, 2017
More than a third of physics teachers teaching without a degree
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  • Jul 7, 2017
Just one in 10 returner teachers under government scheme secure jobs
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  • Jul 6, 2017
Return to teaching scheme with 11.6% success rate 'held back by negativity of schools'
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  • Jul 6, 2017
Maths and physics teacher supply package
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  • Jul 6, 2017
Science teachers most likely to leave profession, and 3 more DfE retention data findings
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  • May 25, 2017
How one man used hip hop to help his son study for his physics exam
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BBC Exams Physics Parents
  • May 21, 2017
Perimeter Lecture: how to bake Pi - making abstract mathematics palatable
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Guardian Maths Physics
  • Apr 5, 2017
Leading private girls' schools to share physics teachers with state sector
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  • Feb 27, 2017
Physics: why it’s still a guy thing
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  • Feb 24, 2017
Teacher shortages in key subjects `worsening´, report warns
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  • Feb 21, 2017
Putting a limit on time spent marking and preparing lessons can stop exodus of teachers, says MPs
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  • Feb 21, 2017
Teacher recruitment crisis causing a school ‘science shortfall’, especially in Physics
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  • Jan 27, 2017
Government's secret £300,000 overseas teacher recruitment drive revealed
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  • Jan 27, 2017
MAC report fails to recognise full-blown teacher recruitment crisis
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  • Jan 26, 2017
Teacher shortages spread to computing and general science
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  • Jan 26, 2017
CERN offer for science teachers
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  • Nov 16, 2016
Government cuts funding for School Direct shortage subjects
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  • Sep 29, 2016