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Article: Chemistry and industry in the classroom, past and future. (includes The Salters' Advanced Chemistry Project, Great Britain)
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- Chemistry and Industry
- Article date:
- September 18, 1989
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Chemistry and Industry in the Classroom, Past and Future
The training of chemists was, in the discipline's infancy, a very practical affair. Dr Tony Travis, of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, examines the education of some pioneering organic chemists, and the emerging delineation of `applied' and `academic' chemistry. Today's educators and students, he suggests, could learn a few lessons from the old school.
The complex business of matching science education with technology and the economic reality of the world outside the classroom has dominated the minds of educators for the past decade, and as a result two major trends have emerged. Institutions are ...