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LifeLab hosts ITV Meridian News as part of their childhood obesity reports

ITV Meridian News visited Lifelab and talked to secondary school pupils taking part in our exciting teaching programme that aims to educate young people about how their lifestyle choices at an early age can drastically affect their health in the future and the health of their future children. The news story is part of the ITV Meridian’s […]

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Royal Institution Mathematics Masterclasses

Last weekend the University of Southampton hosted the first of this year’s series of Royal Institution mathematics masterclasses.  are designed to encourage, inspire and engage young people in the art and practice of mathematics. The highly interactive sessions introduce students to aspects or applications of maths which may not usually be covered in the school curriculum, […]

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MSHE at ASE conference

Our research centre had a strong contribution to this year’s annual ASE conference. Centre members Carys Hughes, Christian Bokhove and three Biology teachers presented work on the development of a Maths for Biology day course. The slides are here:

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ex-PGCE-student largest maths jigsaw

 University of Southampton student Simon Alles (PGCE 2012-13) set a Guinness World record recently for the largest mathematical jigsaw. Simon and 500 students at the British School of Beijing recently completed a 3348 piece the Tarzia jigsaw, designed by Simon, as part of a Charity Marathon event.    

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Keith Jones presenting invited keynote in Israel

This week Keith Jones is at the Weizmann Institute in Israel where he is presenting an invited keynote (see link below). Later in the week he makes an invited visit to the David Yellin Academic College of Education in Jerusalem where he is giving a research seminar. During his return journey to Southampton he is […]

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Join our ‘Really Working Scientifically’ workshop at ASE 2016

Dr Andri Christodoulou and Prof Marcus Grace have joined up with their PARRISE partners in the UK, Ruth Amos and Dr Ralph Levinson from UCL Institute of Education in organising a workshop at the forthcoming ASE conference at the University of Birmingham on 8th January 2016.  This workshop for KS3 and KS4 science teachers looks […]

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Professor Lianghuo Fan appointed to DfE’s national working group

Professor Lianghuo Fan, Head of Mathematics, Science and Health Education Research Centre, has recently been appointed by the Department of Education (DfE) to its planning and resources review group. According to Education Secretary Nicky Morgan, the group is part of the government’s action to address top three teacher workload issues, include marking, planning and resources, […]

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