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The Royal National College for the Blind (RNC) is a specialist residential College of further education and training, working with people from the age of 16, who are blind or partially sighted, to promote their independence and potential. RNC provides a range of full time programmes and short courses designed to prepare people for progression [...]

NTI have announced their new programme of courses for Summer 2008, covering project management, creative media and web development. All courses take place in the Old Broadcasting House in Leeds. Prices include lunch, refreshments and course materials and the courses do not attract VAT.
Courses include Adobe Dreamweaver, InDesign, Flash and Photoshop.
For more details, visit [...]

As part of their regional workshop programme Netskills are delivering the following workshop at Newcastle University in September:
CSS: A Complete Web Style Toolkit, 18th September
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This workshop and offers a complete, practical guide to the use of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to deliver professional-looking, accessible and cost-effective web content. If you are familiar with the basics [...]

Virtualisation - An Online Primer
Friday 10th October 2008
Venue: Your Desk! (Online event)
14:00 - 15:00
Virtualisation aims to maximise the use of resources by hosting multiple virtual servers on one or more physical servers. The benefit of this can be in reduced costs through less power consumption, less required space, and less frequent purchase of hardware.
This [...]

You might be interested to know that JANET Training are running the following course at Peter House in Manchester:
Technical Support for Videoconferencing
12th August
Within the context of national JANET services, this course will provide a useful introduction to the technical aspects of videoconferencing. It includes an overview of the components of a videoconferencing network, details of [...]

You are cordially invited to the Leeds Girl Geek dinner on the evening of 13th August, at the Living Room in Leeds, close to the station.
Girl Geek Dinners were started in London three years ago as a way for women creatives, techies, scientists and programmers to meet up and socialise and not be outnumbered by [...]

The Sustainable Desktop?
Achieving Energy Efficient PCs in Universities and Colleges
2 September 2008
University of Sheffield
The JISC-funded SusteIT project is running a workshop on ‘The Sustainable Desktop’ at the University of Sheffield on September 2nd. The event focuses on ways of reducing IT-related energy consumption through computer powerdown; grid computing; procurement of low [...]

There are still some spaces available on the following workshops that Netskills are running at Newcastle University in July:
1. Writing for the Web, 8th July
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The ability to write and re-purpose content for the web is an important skill. Visitors can abandon your site at the click of a button if they are not enticed by [...]

Title:                             UCISA-SDG Professional Skills for Advisory Staff
Date:                             16 - 19 September 2008
Venue:                            University of East Anglia
Booking deadline:            Friday 29 August 2008
Professional Skills is aimed at computer professionals who have been working in an HE Computing/ Information Service for at least a year.
Working on the assumption that participants have the technical skills to do their job, [...]