Secondary schools collaboration

Some examples of successful collaborations between chemists and high school teachers were described at the 9th International Conference on Chemical Education (14). Australia (15), Great Britain and Canada all have national efforts underway to improve their secondary school curricula. The long term goal of each is to promote scientific literacy, and each new program draws heavily upon global environmental science for examples that are relevant to students. In each of these... 

Facilitate and contribute to the development of a rational school medicines policy, including guidelines for student, faculty, and staff medicine education, for acquisition, transport, storage, administration, use, and disposal of medicines for protection of privacy and for record-keeping in primary and secondary schools. Initiatives should be undertaken in collaboration with appropriate partners. 

SSU collaborates with secondary schools of Kursk Region and involves best school students into scientific projects performed by university students. Some chemistry circles organized in SSU for school students provide deep study of chemistry and performing the scientific projects. Such activity gives rise to the interest of schoolchildren to the chemistry and environmental science and prompting them to receive higher chemistry education. 

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