Royal Society of Chemistry
Cambridge, United Kingdom
About Royal Society of Chemistry
Royal Society of Chemistry operates RSC Education, a chemistry-focused platform offering teaching resources, professional development, mentoring, curriculum support, careers materials, and student enrichment. Its support includes free Teach Chemistry membership for eligible UK and Ireland educators and paid worldwide access to teaching resources and expert content.
Teaching style
RSC Education uses chemistry-specific, classroom-oriented learning delivered through scaffolded worksheets, practical demonstrations, self-paced courses, live online training, in-person courses, mentoring, articles, and curriculum-mapped resources. Its professional development emphasizes subject knowledge, pedagogical content knowledge, practical work, misconceptions, and strategies educators can apply in class.
Reputation & Succeed take
RSC Education states that its resources, articles, and professional development courses are developed by subject experts and quality-assured by the Royal Society of Chemistry. The platform reports more than 2,000 free-to-access resources and describes the UK Chemistry Olympiad as a leading chemistry competition for secondary students.
Our take
RSC Education's clearest strength is the breadth of its chemistry-specific ecosystem: classroom resources, curriculum mapping, practical support, professional development, mentoring, careers guidance, and enrichment sit in one place. It appears especially useful to educators who want materials they can apply directly in lessons alongside longer-term professional support.
Rather than centering on a single course format, RSC Education combines resource libraries, articles, curriculum tools, self-paced learning, live online and in-person professional development, mentoring, careers materials, and competitions. Its specialization is chemistry education rather than broad, cross-subject teacher training.
Who this provider suits
Who should choose them
Chemistry teachers, technicians, science leaders, department heads, careers advisers, and schools seeking curriculum-linked resources or subject-specific professional development should consider RSC Education. Its professional development spans early-career teachers, subject specialists and non-specialists, coordinators, department heads, and experienced teachers.
Who it may not suit
Educators seeking broad, non-chemistry provision may find the subject focus too narrow. Free Teach Chemistry registration is limited to eligible secondary schools, colleges, and teacher-training institutions in the UK and Ireland, while sustained professional-development courses are not typically suitable for trainee teachers during the first two terms of training.