Focus Education F I R S T EL E V EN IN FOCUS
Science: the New FRONTLINE
As nuclear reactors, tsunamis, oil prices and climate change hit the headlines again it needs little explanation to realise that our most frightening enemies are natural and man-made phenomena and the army needed to fi ght these new threats are our scientists.
First Eleven invited Paul Clarke head of science at Oundle, Kate Bellingham
former presenter of Tomorrow’s World, Steve Adams of Shrewsbury school and Neil Brooks of The Old Malthouse, Cothill’s inspiring awayday science laboratory, to give their views on how to inspire and educate a new generation of scientists
In the UK,
Paul Clarke, 2010 winner of the Institute of Physics Award explains how schools are working to inspire a future
generation of scientists
T is era will be viewed by future generations as a golden age for science during which signifi cant advances in our understanding of the Universe and our place within it were made. Discoveries such as the existence of dark matter and dark energy together with the
www.fi rstelevenmagazine.co.uk an engineer does not
have the social status aff orded him in other countries. It evokes images of overalls and toolboxes.
T e truth is diff erent. An engineering graduate today has a ticket to tour the world working at the very cutting edge of technology helping Governments, businesses and individuals become leaner, faster and better.
Peter Fouquet, President of Bosch in the UK
decoding of the human genome already provide compelling evidence for this. T is rapid progress in our understanding of the natural world is clearly going to
continue over the next few years, propelled by the discoveries from the Large Hadron Collider and the development of exciting new fi elds such as bioengineering. T ere is a
palpable sense of excitement in Summer 2011 FirstEleven 35
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