RSC sends Signing Shakespeare resources to all specialist deaf schools in the UK
Teaching packs to make Shakespeare more accessible to deaf students are being sent to every deaf school and major deaf unit in the UK as part of the Signing Shakespeare project, which is supported and developed via a long-term partnership between the University of Birmingham and the Royal Shakespeare Company. The printing and sending of […]
Shakespeare to be made accessible for deaf school children
University of Birmingham academics and the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) have joined forces in a new project to make Shakespeare accessible for deaf children in schools. This pioneering initiative is the result of a longstanding collaboration between the RSC and the University of Birmingham, beginning in 2016. There are over 50,000 deaf children in the […]
£4m high performance computing facility for University of Birmingham
The University of Birmingham has been awarded £4m for a major project to develop a computing system aimed at helping researchers to speed up the scientific discovery process and provide new insights into important research questions. The project is a collaboration between the University of Birmingham, The Rosalind Franklin Institute, The Alan Turing Institute and Diamond Light Source, the […]
The Report: Does social media have a place in formal education?
The University of Birmingham has created a free course to help teachers understand how young people use social media. The course – Optimising Social Media for Youth Health and Wellbeing – will focus on the impact of social media on mental health and wellbeing, but will also help teachers use social media as a learning […]