Education Policy

We believe that the key to maximising the impact of our efforts to support and enhance biological education from school to university lies in a greater degree of collaboration with students, teachers, and other science bodies concerned with education. To that end we are a core member of SCORE - Science Community Representing Education, which provides a coherent voice for the science education community on the long-term issues in science education.

SCORE member organisations are: the Association for Science Education, the Institute of Physics, the Royal Society, the Royal Society of Chemistry, and the Society of Biology. Together we recognise the importance of taking a strategic approach to strengthening science education.

With our SCORE partners, our key priorities are to:

• address the decline in the number of young people taking A Level sciences
• address the unacceptable shortages of specialist science teachers in our schools and colleges
• improve the access to high quality provision of enrichment and enhancement activities in schools.
• improve the quality of practical work in science at all Key Stages
• provide reliable information on the fitness for purpose of GCSE science examination papers, focusing on how the examination papers assess particular aspects of GCSE science.

Responses to consultations

We respond to consultations relevant to our members, where we think we can make an impact. We submit joint responses with SCORE as appropriate.

You can see our recent responses here.

SCORE hosts a number of seminars, workshops and conferences, to find out more about future meetings visit the SCORE website here.

SCORE publishes a number of policy statements and reports and these can be downloaded from the SCORE website here.