Science Industry and Schools Links

The Centre for Industry Education Collaboration (CIEC) produces classroom resources and teacher guidance to help highlight the links between classroom science and science-based industry. Resources in this collection contain information about the chemical and plastics industries as well as practical guidance about forming links between schools and local science-based companies. Over many years experience, The Centre for Industry Education Collaboration (CIEC) have enabled the formation of successful links at both primary and secondary school levels.

The materials in this section include information and guidance about areas such as:

• benefits of school-industry links
• industry speakers in school
• arranging visits to company sites
• follow-up activities after site visits
• school-industry links case studies
• links between curriculum science and science-based industry
• industry days
• mock interviews
• sponsorship

A special issue of the Association of Science Education's Primary Science journal containing articles written by the CIEC team, highlights the importance of working across the boundaries between education and industry to provide pupils with a better understanding of the application of science in the real world.