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The paper examines Science intern students' perceptions of knowledge transfer from university to work. Compared with research on learning at work, the field of transfer between university and workplaces is less well explored. Students were briefed on transfer at their workplaces then asked to submit an account of their own experiences of knowledge transfer. The briefing sessions and the accounts were then examined for emergent trends that may shed light on the extent to which students perceived transfer to be occurring. In short, students may recognize some transfer of knowledge and procedures with limited learning or they may extend and develop more general learning into specific learning at work, often providing original, innovative contributions to work practice. Contributions to work were seen as ideal transfer tools or boundary objects.

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The crystal structures of the Werner clathrates Ni(NCS)2(isoquinoline)4 (H) with para-xylene (px), meta-xylene (mx) and ortho-xylene (ox) have been elucidated. The kinetics of thermal decomposition of the three inclusion compounds were performed using the isothermal technique of Flynn and Wall. Selectivity of H for the xylene isomers was determined for both the liquid and vapour phase binary mixtures of the xylenes. The chosen ligand has a larger aromatic system to improve the possible π interactions between H and the selected guests. The planarity of the isoquinoline ligand causes H rigidity and its selectivity was compared to a related Werner complex containing the more flexible 4-phenylpyridine.