John Taylor, a teacher who worked on AS-level piloting of new qualifications in science and an extended project for the Edexcel board from 2006, says: "Piloting is crucial.
Mark Dawe, chief executive of the OCR exam board, said universities had made it clear they wanted students with qualifications in science and maths.
Give them teachers with excellent qualifications in science, spend plenty of time on the subject and engage their enthusiasm with after-school clubs, events and competitions, says the report.
A supply of many more people with qualifications in science, technology, engineering and mathematics will "have to be a big element of American competitiveness", he says.Businesspeople complain endlessly about public-sector education and training schemes.
He told the BBC:"There are only a 150 MPs out of 650 that have ever been in business and only 30 have got any qualifications in science.
I was able to move smoothly from science to policy, while at the same time using my experience in the biotechnology industry as well as my educational qualifications in science and public health.
GAMSAT is used in this programme, as others, partly as an indicator of applicants' capability to tackle the medical sciences component of the course since many applicants do not have educational qualifications in science.
The literature search was conducted by researchers with qualifications in food science, chemistry, toxicology, epidemiology and cancer risk assessment.
And Elizabeth Rasekoala, director of the African-Caribbean Network for Science and Technology--an organisation set up in 1995 to help black students achieve qualifications and jobs in science, engineering, and technology--is always looking for volunteers who will make a minimum commitment of one session per week for one school term.
About 200 officers are accepted each year to the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) in Monterey, California, to study full time for a master's or Ph.D. qualification in engineering or science.
