Editing Institute of Physics (section)

==Education==
The IOP accredits undergraduate degrees (BSc/BA and MSci/MPhys) in physics in British and Irish universities.<ref name=register />  At post-16 level, the IOP developed the '[[Advancing Physics]]' [[Advanced Level (UK)|A-level]] course, in conjunction with the OCR examining board, which is accredited by the [[Qualifications and Curriculum Authority]]. Advancing Physics was sold to [[Oxford University Press]] in January 2011.<ref name="letter to Advancing Physics users">{{Cite web |url=http://advancingphysics.org/events_and_news/dear_advancing_physics_teacher.html |title=Letter to Advancing Physics users |access-date=2011-01-25 |archive-date=2011-08-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110811043755/http://advancingphysics.org/events_and_news/dear_advancing_physics_teacher.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> The IOP also developed the Integrated Sciences degree, which is run at four universities in England.<ref name="Integrated Sciences">{{Cite web |url=http://www.integratedsciences.org.uk/ |title=Integrated Sciences |access-date=2008-09-03 |archive-date=2008-07-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080717055412/http://www.integratedsciences.org.uk/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> The IOP provides an important educational service for secondary schools in the UK. This is the Lab in a Lorry, a [[mobile laboratory]] in a large articulated truck. This has three small laboratories where schoolchildren can try out various hands-on experiments, using physics equipment not usually available in the average school laboratory. Sponsorship is provided by [[EDF Energy]] and support from the [[British Science Association]]. IOP runs the Stimulating Physics Network, aimed at increasing the uptake of physics at A-level, and administers teacher-training scholarships funded by the [[Department for Education]].<ref name="SPN">[http://www.stimulatingphysics.org/index.htm Stimulating Physics Network] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150216004556/http://www.stimulatingphysics.org/index.htm |date=2015-02-16 }}</ref><ref name="Teacher Training Scholarships">{{Cite web|url=https://www.iop.org/education/teach/itts/page_52632.html|title=IOP Teacher Training Scholarships|publisher=Institute of Physics}}</ref>

In March 2019, the Institute of Physics launched the Bell Burnell Graduate Scholarship Fund with the goal of helping female and black students to become physics researchers. The program is funded by [[Jocelyn Bell Burnell]] and provides aid to low-income students as well as those who qualify for refugee status. Bell won the [[Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics]] in 2018 and donated the entire £2.3 million prize money to launch the fund.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-47612806|title=Fund to boost female and black physicist numbers|last=Ghosh|first=Pallab|date=19 March 2019|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190321044000/https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-47612806|archive-date=21 March 2019|publisher=[[BBC News]]}}</ref>

The institute is also interested in the ethical impact of physics, as is witnessed though the Physics and Ethics Education Project.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.peep.ac.uk/content/index.php | title=PEEP Physics Ethics Education Project: Teaching controversial and social issues in science / Physics | access-date=2015-02-14 | archive-date=2015-02-06 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150206073647/http://www.peep.ac.uk/content/index.php | url-status=live }}</ref>