The organization of education in Australia is briefly described. Revisions and development of physics curricula, including British and American projects, are discussed. (TS)

As physics becomes more and more specialized, the task of the professional science writer in interpreting discoveries and research in physics for the public becomes very difficult. A professional journalist explains how he meets this challenge. (LC)

A technique of multidimensional scaling was applied to student perceptions of similarities in difficulty of twenty mechanics concepts presented in random pairwise combinations. Two distinct dimensions, one relating to motion and the other to the vector nature of some of the concepts, appeared in three separate groups, when either four or five…