{"id":3868,"date":"2013-08-21T09:00:22","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T08:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/?p=3868"},"modified":"2013-08-21T09:00:22","modified_gmt":"2013-08-21T08:00:22","slug":"a-level-physics-on-the-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/2013\/08\/21\/a-level-physics-on-the-up\/","title":{"rendered":"A level physics on the up"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/openclipart.org\/people\/logomancer\/logomancer_Atom_Model.svg\" alt=\"atom\" width=\"150\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top\"> For the seventh year running the number of students choosing to study A level physics has risen; from 27,368 in 2006 to 35,569 this year. However, students sitting A level exams for <em>all<\/em> subjects is down by 1.1% as compared to last year. <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>The government set up the Stimulating Physics Network (SPN) with the aim of getting at least 35,000 students sitting A level physics by 2014. The Institute of Physics has also been very active in promoting physics and physics teaching.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see, the target set by the government has now been reached a year earlier.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Our Stimulating Physics Network is addressing the chronic problem of too few specialist physics teachers in the UK by offering free, bespoke, in-school training to non-specialist science teachers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Professor Sir Peter Knight, President of IOP<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>In figures<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-new.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2013\/08\/alevelphysics-1.jpg\" alt=\"physics\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Links<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iop.org\/news\/13\/aug\/page_60889.html\" title=\"iop news\" target=\"_blank\">A level physics \u2013 35,000 target reached<\/a> IOP news<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stimulatingphysics.org\/\" title=\"stimulating physics\" target=\"_blank\">Stimulating Physics Network<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the seventh year running the number of students choosing to study A level physics has risen; from 27,368 in 2006 to 35,569 this year. However, students sitting A level exams for all subjects is down by 1.1% as compared to last year. The government set up the Stimulating Physics Network (SPN) with the aim &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/2013\/08\/21\/a-level-physics-on-the-up\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A level physics on the up<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}