Science Student to Pass on Their Skills

SCIENCE undergraduates are to work alongside teachers to help inspire students and pupils.

The University of St Andrews is pioneering the scheme, which aims to give school pupils role models, while equipping university students with skills in communicating about their subject.

It is part of a UK-wide Undergraduate Ambassadors Scheme (UAS). Science, technology, engineering and maths undergraduates work in local schools for the equivalent of nine half-days in return for academic credits. So far, more than 30 undergraduates from the schools of Biology, Chemistry, Geosciences, Mathematics and Statistics, and Physics and Astronomy have signed up. The students will head off to their placements at a range of Fife and Dundee schools later this month.

DrAlyson Tobin, Reader in Plant Science at the School of Biology, said: “The initiative will provide key transferable skills to undergraduates and, ultimately, encourages a new generation of scientists, engineers and mathematicians.”

For information, visit http: // biology. st-andrews. ac. uk/ id4001.

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