Education tutors are hoping dozens of trainee teachers will be able to take the buzz and the excitement of a science education conference back into the classroom.

Bradford College has arranged for 50 trainee teachers and science co-ordinators at Bradford schools to visit the Association of Science Education’s annual conference in Liverpool.

The conference, the biggest meeting in Europe for primary and secondary teachers, lecturers and lab technicians, features hundreds of presentations as well as an exhibition of science education companies.

Following the success of the British Science Festival, held in Bradford in 2011 for the first time in more than a century, members of the ASE in the district have said interest in the subject appeared to have grown.

Dr Mick Dunne, head of teacher education at Bradford College, said: “What we are trying to do is raise the profile of science with young trainee teachers and the ASE is the largest single subject organisation in the country.

“So if we can get these young teachers to the conference and excite them in terms of what they see from a science education point of view, then our hope is they will carry that enthusiasm and interest into the classroom.

“From that point of view, the college will provide for the transport for all of the trainee teachers to the conference.”

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