Welcome to the Virtual Analytical Laboratory or VAL! This is an on-line resource designed by staff in the School of Allied Health Sciences at De Montfort University. This resource is intended to help students on bioscience and laboratory-based degree programmes to gain essential laboratory skills, whether they are new to the university and have never been in a lab before, or whether they are returning to year 2 or 3 and are a bit rusty.
Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh 16-17 June 2009 The aim of this national conference is to bring together practitioners in the teaching of science disciplines in HE to share their experiences, identify common challenges and an opportunity to share effective practice. The programme will include keynote lectures; short oral presentations; hands on workshops; posters and exhibitions.