12.6 million adults in the UK lack basic digital skills: 5.8 million people have never used the internet: 35% of computer teachers in schools have a relevant degree: 30% of the required number of computer science teachers have not been recruited: 13% of computer graduates are still unemployed 6 months after leaving university. This digital skills gap is costing the UK economy £63 billion a year in lost GDP.

Featured image from the wonderful Martyn Williams on Alamy Image: Discussion of the appointment of the Science and Technology Committee in Parliament 2015 Source: Science and Technology Committee UK Parliament 2016-2017 Remember, or have you googled the very first mobile phone? Left the first mobile phone Dyna Tac 8000x and Burroughs Mainframe Computers After my daughter […]

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Art is in her heart: Balzac Scholar artist and thinker at the Exhibition: Ewa Szypula

Featured image: Ewa Szypula at Nottingham Castle for the Matthew Darbyshire Exhibition The extraordinary thing about Ewa Szypula is that she’s an academic who is also a really gifted artist. She produced the front cover of her doctorate/book: Balzac’s Love Letters: Correspondence and The Literary Imagination (see below). The love between Honore De Balzac and the Polish […]

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Ethics and Selling: Thrift Generation at Minor Oak’s Ethical Market 4th March: Madi’s Back!

Madi is back to champion re-use, re-fashion up cycling  creative quarter, Sneinton and Hockley in particular. Thrift1generation Bringing a new version of quality vintage to Nottingham: for example Glamour magazine highlights the white leather bold shoulder jacket: Glamour mag’s ad for the bold white leather jacket and Madi beautifully sources an original…the prices are fantastic…. […]

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Picture This: People, Business and a Market: Mapping Sneinton 2

  Featured Image: Caravan Gallery Chris Teasdale and Catherine Ross of Museumand If you couldn’t make it, Sneinton’s Vegan Market coincided with the launch of Sneinton’s Pride of Place  project with Caravan Gallery’s wonderful People’s Map of Sneinton (where you can add your place, people, history to the map… it might become one of the amazing […]

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Caravan(serai) remember or have you found that music? Why memories are vital: your map of Sneinton 1

Never more relevant than now, the fantastic connections of musicians like Santana, John and Alice Coltrane…Sun Ra….how music of all kinds can connect and transform us…. (Listen to this wonderful tribute to the phenomenal soul mate of a master…) And Caravan Gallery, like Museumand, Syson Gallery, Nottingham Contemporary, The New Art Exchange,  Surface Gallery and […]

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John Spellar MP: let’s get the electoral register full of our voters: no drop offs!

Above: John Spellar opening D Smith’s new 3D corrugated automotive packaging facility (below the world’s first corrugated car on site, see below)   John Spellar is an active parliamentarian and MP for Warley in the West Midlands. Like a shining diamond for the electoral system that I really believe in (see my article), John attends parliament, […]

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Choose Life: we are all Created Equal: ACNA Nottingham: fertile ground for community connection

Here is the news: ACNA CENTRE EVENTS FOR 2017 MARCH 26TH 2017-Mothers Day Dinner APRIL 15TH 2017-Easter Gospel Extravaganza APRIL 30TH 2017-Dialtone Dance MAY 27TH 2017-Charity Ball JUNE 18TH 2017-Father’s Day Dinner JUNE 24TH 2017-Members Domino Competition JULY 22ND 2017-Family Barbecue and Dance AUGUST 5TH 2017 -Jamaican Independence Event AUGUST 6TH 2017-ACNA-Church Service SEPTEMBER 30TH […]

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Issaka: ‘art is an amazing thing, with the right opportunity, the right timing you can do so much’ sense of an openhearted artist Jasmin Issaka

  I’ve always been interested in how our actions can change things for the better. If you want to do something seriously good that has long term value for everyone you need to combine eye, heart, hand and spirit. You need to care deeply. Jasmin Issaka: reinventions of the ordinary I noticed the work of […]

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