Students who had taken physics A-level – about 20% of respondents – report largely positive experiences, with 86% saying it had been well taught. Some 83% of those students say their physics teachers ...

Specialized A redesigned A-level maths could focus on the needs of physics and non-physics students. (Courtesy: iStock/SolStock) Early in my teaching career, I had a rather uncomfortable exchange with ...

At the introductory level, student typically study classical mechanics and electricity and magnetism (EM). The upper level physics courses focus on quantum mechanics and then more advanced ...

Physics department features alumni seminar series. Since 2007, every spring quarter I have run a seminar series in which our alumni come back and talk to our students about what they are doing in the ...

In 2018, just over 8300 girls chose to study physics at A level, compared with around 6000 who picked French. The problem is that this is minuscule compared with the 29,400 boys who chose it (see ...