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Science across Europe is a new project linking secondary schools across Europe through the science curriculum. It focuses on issues in science, technology and society that have a European dimension. Students taking part gather information, reflect on their opinions and compare them with those of students in other countries. The project provides opportunities for using foreign languages and new communications technologies.

The SATIS team set out to produce a set of resource units which attempt to remedy the shortcomings of traditional science material. The material would aim to illustrate the social, economic and technological implications of the science curriculum and try to avoid the cultural and gender bias that inadvertently pervades many of the present resources. It was hoped to provide not only original and interactive resources but also an opportunity to experiment with a wider range of teaching techniques. The method of publication was to be unconventional. The priority was to make the resource units available to every science department, however stringent its budget, and to produce them in the most versatile and economical form. They were to be short, simple and easy to use. The material is now available from the Association for Science Education as loosely bound books of copyright-waived masters from which teachers can select the units they require.

CRAC 1987 Cambridge: Hobsons 64 pp price £9 (paperback) (free to careers offices and university departments) ISBN 1 85324 018 4 Career case studies of 46 graduate women in areas which have not traditionally been women's career choices are collected in this booklet. The cases are grouped under management, finance, engineering, sales/marketing/retailing and computing.