Blog:   Royal Observatory Greenwich     Posted:   Wednesday 02nd of April 2008 11:49 AM

The Astronomy Education and Outreach session at this weeks NAM revealed lots of exciting events to look forward to over the next few years!

Iwan Williams (University of London) began the session by being happy that a small number of students were now beginning to get low grades in GCSE astronomy...! (The majority of GCSE students are 14-16 year old school children)

But why was Iwan happy about this? Well, it proves that a huge cross-section of school children with a wide range of...