Sheffield City College have started work on a new Technical, Engineering and Design Centre on their Olive Grove site. The project which is called TED is aiming to make Sheffield the place to come to if you want to study any of the three disciplines.
Sheffield City College have started work on a new Technical, Engineering and Design Centre on their Olive Grove site. The project which is called TED is aiming to make Sheffield the place to come to if you want to study any of the three disciplines.
A train with a difference will be able to take people around Sheffield City Centre until Christmas Eve. The road train goes from Tudor Square down to Moor Foot and then back up again.
Students from China, who are studying at Sheffield University, are being placed on secondment with local businesses to help them break in to the Chinese market.
Makers of Sheffields’ famous Hendersons Relish have released a cook book with a difference. The book includes art, music and culture as well as recipes from the City which all include the not so secret ingredient.
Young people from Barnsley got the chance to make and programme robots from scratch alongside Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro at Sheffield Centre for Robotics. Professor Ishiguro is famous for making cutting edge, human like robots in his own image.
The sixth annual Sheffield TEDx event took place at St George’s Church this weekend. With video presentations and speakers from Sheffield and around the world, TEDx Sheffield is a forum for sharing ideas of public benefit.
Gary Verity, Chief Executive of Welcome Yorkshire was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Hallam University. He also announced that from 2016 the Yorkshire Festival would become a bi-annual event.
Local Councillors have voiced concerns about the Governments continued support of HS2 going to Meadowhall instead of into of a Sheffield City centre location. The journey would be around 6 minutes longer if the train came in to town but would create about six thousand more jobs.
The GMB held a picket today at the Beighton Road recycling site. They are asking for better facilities, fairer pay and against alleged bullying. Veolia and Sheffield City Council said they are continuing to support the Green Company and are encouraging discussions so that issues can be resolved quickly.
Nick Clegg, MP for Hallam, launched Tech North in Sheffield this week. Over 200,000 people are working in the creative and technical industries in the North. The scheme aims to see this number doubled.