Key details
- Date: 19 July 2024
- Time: 10am - 12:30pm
- Venue: Kirkby-in-Ashfield Library and Learning Centre, Kirkby-in-Ashfield
- For ages: 19+
- Group size: 5 - 12
- Cost: FREE - £7.50
About this course
This is a short course on the developments and historical figures who contributed to the development of computers and computing.
The course will look at the history of Bletchley Park and the role of the site during WWII.
The session will look at the Enigma machine used to encrypt Nazi communications and the roles of key figures such as Tommy Flowers and Alan Turing. The presentation will examine how the work at Bletchley accelerated the development of computers.
What will learners achieve by the end of the course?
- Learners will know more about the inventions, characters and circumstances that led to modern computers.
Booking your place and fee information
If you are in receipt of certain benefits you will be offered the course for free, however if you have a financial barrier which may prevent you from enrolling on the course please visit our webpage for further information https://www.inspireculture.org.uk/skills-learning/funding-your-courses/
To secure your place on the course BOTH the following must be done:
- Complete the EVENTBRITE BOOKING.
- Complete our INSPIRE ONLINE ENROLMENT FORM for each person attending the course.
You should be redirected to the Inspire Online Enrolment Form after completing the Eventbrite booking. If you are not redirected, please use the link supplied in the Eventbrite booking confirmation email.
To book and enrol on one of our courses, you must have been living in England and have been resident in the UK for the past 3 years.
Some exceptions may apply if you are living in England with evidence of the right to remain and are from an EEU/EEAU country (completion of a questionnaire will be required).
As we no longer receive funding for our ESFA-funded courses for learners living in the devolved areas listed below, full cost fees would apply to these courses if you live in these areas:
- Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield
- Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
- Greater London
- Greater Manchester
- Liverpool City Region
- Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland
- Tees Valley
- West of England
- West Midlands
- West Yorkshire
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