Interesting questions. I was lucky enough to go to a state grammar school as I lived in Buckinghamshire and the science teaching was excellent - I wholly credit my biology and chemistry teachers for my passion for science today (and also credit my physics teacher for my lasting aversion to that subject, but that's another story...)
Kat
Dr Kat Arney
Science Communications Manager
Cancer Research UK
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Subject: [PSCI-COM] Encouraging teenagers from state schools to study science
Hi
I am trying to find out more about the percentage of teenagers from fee paying and state funded schools that study science at University, stay in academia, etc. There's lots of material out there on education in general - e.g., the 5 top fee paying schools send more pupils to Oxbridge than over 2,000 state schools - but I can find very little on science. Lots of the general work shows that financing a degree is clearly an issue, but also that many state school teenagers rarely hear about academics who went to state schools.
Assuming there is an issue, have any science festivals tried to address the problem (e.g. encouraging more speakers who had a state school education, placing a cap on the number of speakers who went to fee paying schools, etc.).
Any help gratefully received!
Cheers
Richard
Professor Richard Wiseman
Psychology Department
University of Hertfordshire
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