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SSERC Bulletin 207 Winter 2002 207 - 1 News and Comment STS Scope includes SSERC Science, Technology and Safety Bulletin For those working in science or technology education ISSN 0267-7474 ISSUE 207 Mucking out the midden CONTENTS More people are staying on at school and taking What happens after school? Not everyone goes part in tertiary education. Workers by hand are 1 Editorial on to university or college. The old style seen as being of lower status than workers by apprenticeship has vanished into the mists of time 2 News & comment mind. Manufacturing industries are vanishing. As replaced by skillseekers, YOPs or whatever a farmer’s daughter I can barely stand to think 3 Health effects of acronym is used for youth training today. about the state of agriculture. There are fewer Employers have to be bribed to take on trainees. low-level time-served plumbers, plasterers and other radiation tradesmen than there used to be. Most of them Even at university, arts subjects and pure science 7 HSE guidance are over 40. generally have higher status than applied science. It takes fewer Highers to get into an engineering 8 PIC & LCD display It is said that it is easier to get a home visit from a course than to get in to study English or history. 9 Solution bumping general practitioner than from an electrician. Why? Do we really need more English and history Problems arise because trades are not considered graduates? There are exceptions: medicine is an 10Anodising important enough to regulate effectively. An Radio transmitter applied science but are the doctors who work in incompetent gas fitter can kill just as many the hospital of so much more value than the civil 11Laser offer people as an incompetent doctor. Serious rail engineers who built it? Is the dentist who uses accidents have been caused by maintenance 12 Radiation the drill more important than the electrical failures. The rise of hospital-acquired infections engineer who designed it? detectors seems to be proportional to the decrease in the 13New ICT packages number of cleaners. Is this all cost-driven? After all it’s possible to teach English with a handful of cheap paperbacks. 14Floras The attitude starts at school. Primary school Practical subjects need specialised facilities and 15Phenomenology children hardly ever do any cookery, or simple special teachers. But if we are to be served lattes science or basic carpentry because the schools 16Trade News by graduates isn’t it better that they graduated either don’t have the facilities or are too from Costa College? concerned about health and safety risks. But The Bulletin is playgroup-age children can saw and nail bits of During the ICS’s tourism debate in Cupar, we published by wood under supervision without incident. heard that visitors to Scotland are disappointed by SSERC, the quality of service. In the USA and in St Mary’s Building, Scottish secondary school children have a few 23 Holyrood Road, periods of home economics and technical continental Europe the chefs, waitpersons and Edinburgh, EH8 8AE subjects in first and second year. Some carry on to cleaners seem to care more about pleasing the Tel: 0131 558 8180 Standard Grade and Highers but the departments customer. Is that because they are nicer people, Fax: 0131 558 8191 are not highly regarded. My youngest daughter is because they are paid more or because their E-mail: [email protected] seriously concerned about the lack of respect she society values their work? Managing Editor: will be given for her Standard Grade craft and My final example of the proposition is a particular John Richardson design. She and her classmates spent six months hobbyhorse of mine. This is almost a joke but if I Copyright is held to be waived only for bona-fide of physical and mental effort planning, designing had spent 18 years in Cornton Vale having educational uses within and making complex and functional units from current Scottish member murdered four people there would be an army of EAs, schools and colleges. wood, metal and plastic. She made a lovely piece of furniture. CONTINUED OVERLEAF SSERC Bulletin 207 Winter 2002 207 - 1 News and comment Diary dates in the Scottish Curriculum and Science ASE Scotland - Annual Meeting International Science Conference for the 21st century. There is also going The Science Education 20:20 Conference to be a special NQT/PGCE student The 2003 annual conference and the is to be held in the International afternoon on Wednesday. Annual General Meeting of the Scottish Branch of the Association for Science Conference Centre in Edinburgh from Institute of Biology Events 5th - 7th March, 2003. Organised by the Education will be held in Aberdeen on Scottish Executive, the Science Education The Scottish Branch of the Institute of 7th - 9th March 2003. The Conference 20:20 Conference will look forward to a Biology has arranged a day course for will be based at St Machar Academy and world where teaching and the school biology teachers on Protein Technology The Patio Hotel, Aberdeen. The ASE Scot- curriculum will have radically changed. on the 1st of February 2003 at the Quest land Technician’s Conference will run as The event will raise the profile of science Biotechnology Laboratory in Dollar part of the Annual Conference over Fri- education, recognise the importance of Academy. Details from Peter Anderson day 7th March and Saturday 8th March. public understanding of science and (see Address List). The branch has also A wide range of talks, lectures, work- highlight concepts of risk management announced the date for the 8th Biology shops, seminars and visits have been in science. This conference is an event Teachers’ Day. That event will be held on organised to support science courses for teachers, educationalists, scientists Tuesday the 3rd of June and the venue, from 5-14 to Advanced Higher. There will and, indeed, for anyone with a passion as usual, will be the University of Stirling. also be a wide range of exhibitions of for science. Further details, including of the pro- books, publications, apparatus and other gramme, will be posted on our website resources to teach science. A full pro- A number of internationally-renowned as they become available. speakers are to address the conference, gramme for these ASE conferences and a from astronauts to academics, including Chemistry Teachers’ Day booking form are inserted in this issue of the Bulletin. Sir James Black, Sir Kenneth Calman, The National Scottish Meeting for Professor Richard Dawkins, Dr Bonnie Teachers of Chemistry organised by the PPP out-takes Dunbar, Sir Gareth Roberts and others. Royal Society of Chemistry and St PPP - as we all have come to know and IoP Congress 2003 Andrew’s University, supported by the love - stands for Public and Private Royal Society of Edinburgh, will again be The 2003 Congress will be held at Heriot Partnerships. In our recent experience, held at St Andrew’s University on 30th occasionally the final “P” might be better Watt University from the 23rd to the 27th May 2003. of March. The education programme for translated as “pear-shaped”. Lately, we’ve Congress 2003 will be extensive and Summer schools begun collecting PPP anecdotes relevant to science education facilities. Some of include ‘School Physics in Action’ each The residential Summer Schools in Bio- these may well be apochryphal. We do day from Monday to Wednesday and an technology, Chemistry and Physics are to hope so. Other stories carry the frighten- INSET programme. The latter is likely to be run again at the University of ing ring of truth. Many are traced back be a series of short one day events with Edinburgh in 2003. The dates have been to non-specialist architects in the private the opportunity to visit the Physics in set as 23rd to the 27th of June 2003. sector without any previous experience Action programme at the end of the day. There are also developing possibilities of school design. Thankfully, most such Specific days are being planned for for similar residential courses at other boobs are trapped out at the initial primary teachers, technicians and Scottish locations both for secondary design stages. Our favourite to date has secondary teachers. science specialists and primary teachers. to be the ordinary, double, under-bench We’ll do our best to keep you informed There will also be a series of workshops cupboard labelled: on topics such as: educational software as soon as we have any more detail on these. “For fumes” EDITORIAL: Mucking out the midden continued from Page 1. professionals ready to help me re- But there is a strange dichotomy here. Catering staff, building trades, manufac- integrate into society and the world of Given the number of cross stitch and turing workers - few of them get the work. However, I stayed at home full- needlework magazines, there must be respect or rewards they deserve. We time for 18 years to bring up four people thousands of people sewing as a hobby need to re-examine our priorities and and what help was there? The black hole but with the closures of clothing start looking at the value we attach to in my CV was a problem and my life manufacturers in the Borders and other practical skills. Short-term cost saving experience didn’t count. areas there are very few sewing for a should not be more important than living. Practical skills are OK as a hobby long-term gains. Let me think – two toddlers, one toy – but not as a job? that’s conflict resolution. Three children We have to recognise that practical skills in different activities starting at 5 p.m.
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