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Julia King on manipulating metals and decarbonising transport

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Why Aren't We Getting More Physics Teachers?

The government has been missing its targets for recruiting physics teachers by such a long way. Is it because people with physics degrees are graduating and going off into industry or is it just not enough people studying physics at university? You know, there wasn't the shortage in the same way of chemistry or biology teachers. Well, just a couple of years later you went back to university life as principal of engineering at Imperial College London and then as vice chancellor of Aston University.

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