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Education Business Associates<\/h1>\n
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Derek Jones established Education Business Associates in 1977 and delivers many of the RSC’s Junior and Secondary Chemistry at Work events. Derek lives in Princes Risborough and is a school teacher who has always been interested in science and languages. \u00a0He is a\u00a0Licensee of Le club Fran\u00e7ais<\/a>,\u00a0he speaks Spanish and teaches French to 4 to 16 year olds and adults\u00a0and\u00a0is a STEM Ambassador. As a manager in the Local Authority’s Careers Service he ran the Work Experience scheme in the Aylesbury Vale. He is I.O.S.H. trained for approving work experience placements for school and college students and he has worked as a consultant for the Bedfordshire, Milton Keynes and Buckinghamshire Education Business Partnerships. He also gives demonstrations on eco-friendly health, fuel and water treatments. His eldest son Phil, a software engineer who gained his MSc in Computer Science at Buckinghamshire New University, designed and maintains of this website.<\/p>\n

Event Organising<\/h3>\n

Following a steady increase in demand, Derek now organises more than a dozen “Chemistry at Work” days annually, in local venues and in schools. Thanks to the many demonstrators who are now taking part, these events involve over 2,000 students age 10 to 15 annually. Derek also gives scientific demonstrations at other “Chemistry at Work” events.<\/p>\n

Language Teaching<\/h3>\n

As \u00a0a Licensee of Le Club\u00a0Fran\u00e7ais, Derek teaches French to groups of children age 4 to 9 at Longwick C of E Combined School, through songs, games and “fun” activities using audio-lingual methods supported by Le Club Fran\u00e7ais. More recently he has employed the services of another teacher\u00a0and opened new clubs in the local Primary Schools. He also tutors students to GCSE level and works with adults seeking to begin or improve their French.<\/p>\n

Heath & Safety Checking for Work Experience<\/h3>\n

Derek is trained to the “Managing Safely” standard of the “The Institution of Occupational Safety and Health” and for many years visited organisations offering Work Experience placements to pre-16 and post-16 students for the Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes Education Business Partnerships to assess the placements offered.<\/p>\n

Effects of Magnetism<\/h3>\n

Derek has studied some of the surprising and well documented effects of magnetism on different elements and he occasionally gives scientific\u00a0demonstrations showing possible explanations as to why it is known to\u00a0reduce domestic and commercial gas bills, increases vehicle fuel efficiency and help healing in people and animals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Education Business Associates Derek Jones established Education Business Associates in 1977 and delivers many of the RSC’s Junior and Secondary Chemistry at Work events. Derek lives in Princes Risborough and is a school teacher who has always been interested in science and languages. \u00a0He is a\u00a0Licensee of Le club Fran\u00e7ais,\u00a0he speaks Spanish and teaches French\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":817,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"eba.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chemistryatwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/290"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chemistryatwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chemistryatwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chemistryatwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chemistryatwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chemistryatwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/290\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chemistryatwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chemistryatwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}