Mappademia is a project submitted for the JISC student ideas competition which, if it can get 250 votes from the public, would get funding for a piece of software which would allow students or researchers with little or no previous programming experience to easily create mobile mapping applications and share them for free with the public….
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Peter Speight, British Men’s Skiing Champion, discusses pursuing sports and History/sporting history at the Uni of Manchester!
I first got into freestyle skiing when I moved to Sheffield aged 12. They had a really good dry ski slope there which I used to go to every week. Loads of my friends went and there were hundreds of kids getting taught to ski. I progressed up and got more and more involved in…
From the Corridors of Power to Sir Henry Cole’s Rat: Level 3 Field-trip to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and National Archives, London!
Dr Oliver Bast (back row) and students at the National Archives. Image courtesy of Dr Bast. On the morning of Friday 11th March, ten of us taking the Level 3 History course ‘Oil Wars? Armed Conflict, War and Foreign Power Intervention in the Persian Gulf (1898-1991)’ took a field trip to London. We were accompanied by…
The Perils and Promises of Being a Mature Student
Editor’s Note: This blog has been re-posted by kind permission of Robin Trenbath; for more from Robin you can follow his blog here and read his twitter feed @rjtrenbath Many mature students have had unusual relationships with education – and I am certainly one of them. When I left school at 16 I gleefully burned my…
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