The decision by Education Secretary Michael Gove will mean that computing will count as a science in the English Baccalaureate for secondary school league tables from January 2014 - alongside physics, chemistry, biology and pupils taking double science.

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One of the earliest of these refers young people to a list of "facilitating subjects" - English, maths, physics, biology, chemistry, geography, history and languages.

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Modern innovation springs from a deep understanding of physics, electronics, math, chemistry and biology--not Proust.

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The techniques come from fields such as evolutionary biology, chemical engineering and physics to capture tumor complexity in a few well-considered equations.

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The Global Microscience Experiments Project is a hands-on science education project that gives primary and secondary school students as well as university students the opportunity to conduct practical work in physics, chemistry and biology, using kits that are veritable mini-laboratories.

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