About the British Centre for Science Education
The British Centre for Science Education (BCSE) is a group dedicated to promoting and defending science education in the UK. It is run as a cooperative organisation by part-time volunteers with paid membership and a public forum where the general public can debate the key issues involved. It has no full time members of staff and believes in the tools for everyone to think for themselves - Science, Education and Reason - and the outcome – Democracy, Pluralism and Liberty.
We have become deeply worried about attacks on science education, particularly from creationists funded from the USA, and our campaign is dedicated to keeping all forms of creationism including Intelligent Design out of the science classroom in the UK.
The membership is open to all who support our aims. Members, in practice, are professional and managerial people from all walks of life who have been through the education system, understand it and have benefited from it. We are aware of the key issues involved in education both as beneficiaries of it and also because our own children are currently benefiting from it.
As such, the BCSE holds a robust position on endeavours without any scientific merit and whose proponents attempt to undermine and subvert scientific and educational activities.
Our public forum allows proponents of creationism and Intelligent Design to put their case forward and debate it. Members and participants in our forum include teachers, academics, scientists, members of the clergy, engineers, archaeologists, scientists, students, management consultants, professional managers and businessmen, as well as people of a wide variety of political and religious persuasions.
The BCSE is open to all, irrespective of religious or political affiliations, who wish to oppose the tide of creationism in the United Kingdom.
Committee:
Professor Paul S. Braterman, M.A., D.Phil., D. Sc.
Mark Edon
Dr. Jeremy Hodge, M.A., D.Phil, CSci, CChem, FRSC, school governor
Dr. Brian Jordan B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D.
Roger Stanyard (spokes-person)
The BCSE believes in the tools for everyone to think for themselves - Science, Education and Reason - and the outcome – Democracy, Pluralism and Liberty.
