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As part of the final year of their undergraduate degree programmes, some chemistry students at the University of Bristol spend time in local primary or secondary schools working on chemistry or chemical education problems. All partners gain from this programme. The students develop many of the transferable skills required by employers in all sectors. The scheme also provides them with the chance to gain some experience of working in schools, at the same time as acquiring credit as part of their degree programme. Many of the participating students go on to postgraduate teacher training courses and become committed and effective teachers. The schools benefit from having young enthusiastic science role models, assistance in the classroom and an opportunity to develop and run new projects. The scheme also helps the university department develop better links with neighbouring schools.

Presents obituaries for Dorothy Owen, a British archivist, author and historical researcher and for Angela Jean Wait, an archivist and scholar in Great Britain who died on March 30, 2002. Background on Owen's archival career; Details of edited works of Owen; Educational background of Wait; Details of Wait's political activities.

The Philippines remains the world's largest exporter of nurses, with over 22,000 employed in the NHS (Baker, 2020). In this article, we analyse the migratory rationales and choices of Filipino nurses either about to embark or already working in the UK's National Health Service (NHS), through an ontological security framework. Qualitative interviews and focus groups were undertaken with 24 nurses in the Philippines and UK one element of which set out to understand why, in the context of high global demand for overseas nurses the nurses had chosen the UK as their destination. Findings highlight how collective imageries of 'home' and of different overseas destinations are rooted in shared understandings of underlying social structures, and their perceived capacity to generate ontological security for their citizens. Social and institutional pressures in the Philippines engendered a generalised insecurity that was corrosive to the nurses' identity and sense of agency and undermined the ability to meet cultural norms of family support. The nurses favoured the UK due to the comparative ease of moving there; a prevailing perception of social stability and of its political and institutional structures as being based on transparency and meritocracy, facilitating professional development and social mobility. The findings extend 'culture of migration' perspectives by illuminating why nurses migrate to where they do by emphasising place as a source of ontological security, with migratory preferences influenced by the perceived capacity of different national systems to minimise social risks. This also implies that as global social risks and volatilities intensify, plugging nursing gaps in the economically developed world with nurses from the developing world will become increasingly unpredictable as the ability of governments in destination countries to guarantee ontological security becomes more uncertain. • Explores why Filipino nurses move to the UK given high global demand for nurses. • Images of migratory destinations reflect shared understandings of its society. • Perceptions of comparative ontological security shapes migratory choices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents information on citizenship, nationality and ethnic minorities in the European Nations. To compare the ethnicity and citizenship in the European nations in such a rapidly changing situation presents a considerable challenge. The nature of the minority groups is different within the three societies. The ethnic minorities resident in the Great Britain disproportionately originate from the countries, which previously formed the British Empire and subsequently the Commonwealth. In Germany on the otherhand, ethnic minorities tend to come from neighbouring states, both within and outside the European Union. In France minorities exist which originate both from the areas of French Colonial influence, particularly the Maghreb, and from neighbouring states. Germany has a definition of nationality and citizenship strongly based in German ethnicity, understood in a very biological way. Formally German nationality is open to anyone who can establish their German origin irrespective of country of residence, although the practice is more restrictive than this.