At least according to David Hardman, Head of Birmingham Aston Science Park. He was talking to a Birmingham City Council scrutiny committee and according to the Birmingham Mail
"(Mr Hardman) Hit out at teachers for "making science lessons boring", but added that their hands were tied by safety legislation."
Now this is actually something we've covered on Midlands Today and it turns out there is still plenty of stuff you can blow up in a lab in the name of schools science. Don't believe me? Watch this!
So I do hope I can reassure Mr Hardman and the council that you can still set fire to a child in the name of chemistry.
For teachers looking for more information about how to conduct explosive or otherwise exciting experiments in the classroom both the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Practical Chemistry websites have lots of useful resources.
For those of us of a certain age the creation of videogames was something undertaken by a dedicated few in their bedrooms. Thanks to the ZX Spectrum, the British videogame craze spawned a shelf of one-man games creators. Some made a lot of money and eventually graduated from bedroom to boardroom.
Today these companies make games that cost millions and have a staff of hundreds. But at the Future Gaming conference I saw something new - the return of the bedroom developer.
Sometimes this will be a standalone game such as Minecraft. But more often than not you'll find new companies with just a few staff creating games that you'll play while logged in to Facebook. Games on Facebook are already huge business and new Midlands companies like SOSHI Games and OOP Games Studio are looking to enter the market.
The advantages are access to Facebook's 500 million users and the ease with which one player can tempt his friends to sign up and play too. The downside is it is already a crowded market so you need something special to stand out.
For OOP that means a zombie based game where you need to cooperate with your real friends to survive.
In the case of SOSHI Games, they are giving their game a social-spin and linking up with charities and groups such as Fairtrade US, Kiva and Keep Britain Tidy. The idea is the game will be promoted by these groups and help them raise cash and earn money for SOSHI too. You can find their game here.
And how do any of these games make money? Well while much of the content is free you can also spend real cash to buy virtual objects in the game. Usually just small amounts of real-world money are needed but it soon adds up. In the case of one of the biggest Facebook game makers to more than £50m a year. It is a rapidly expanding market and you can read more about it here.
As Kevin-the-cameraman pointed out, it really is a return to the old days of single-person game creation. And if one or both of these games take off SOSHI and OOP could be the Codemasters, Rare or Blitz of tomorrow.
As a science correspondent, it is not particularly surprising I really do like gadgets. But it turns out the gadget accessorises business (or gadgets for your gadgets) is very big business.
Ahead of Christmas I went to visit the team at mobilefun.co.uk, a Birmingham-based online retailer selling all sorts of cases, styluses, speakers and more for your mobile phone. It's a great place to take the temperature of a tech business ahead of the festive season.
Interestingly, the company started out selling ringtones and downloadable games and they still have one member of staff looking after that side of things. But most of the 50-odd staff work in the accessories business. And it's expanding.They now export to Germany and France via dedicated websites. And they're even opening a new website selling video-gaming accessories.
Although the last 18 months have been hard, the marketing boss Mark Riley told me the company is gearing up for the biggest Christmas in its 10-year history.
You might expect most of these accessories to be made in China. But in fact they also come from Japan, the US and the UK. In fact the team are currently trying to source something rather special created using some very traditional Midlands expertise. But more on that at a later date.
I'm David Gregory, BBC Science Correspondent for the West Midlands. My first law states: "Science is the answer." There is no second law. Feel free to drop me a line: [email protected].
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