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  • Mindshare Huddle – Tell the chimp who’s in charge

    Yellobric’s Gavin Paterson leads a huddle at Mindshare’s huddle for good. Good is what you make it, it’s meaning is subjective and unique to you alone. Yellobric’s Mindshare huddle looked at how their view of “good” impacts on organisations, specifically charities. The debate asked if our assumption that charities are necessarily good is well founded […]

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  • Hub Enables Remote Learning

    Yellobric partner 2Enable have launched their remote hub which allows students to download expert video lessons onto their smart phone to watch at home. Each week they will be able to download additional lessons at no cost to them without using any data. Once they have completed their video lessons they will be able to […]

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  • Department of Education Accreditation

    Yellobric have received accreditation as one of 6 pilot programmes running eLearning in South African schools. Yellobric are the only rural school to run the programme and were selected due to the large number of tests our facilitator Duncan was able to carry out. This has resulted in political, technical and financial support from the […]

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  • School Space Race Partners

    The School Space Race gathers pace as three more sponsors come on board, Research Council UK, Institute of Physics and Genatec. Five schools from Norfolk and two from South Africa will compete in this years’ competition although the race is still open to applications (click to apply). The programme also includes technical training from Raspberry Pi’s […]

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  • Yellobric on the BBC

    Yellobric’s Gavin Paterson talks to Matthew Gudgin on BBC Radio Norfolk. Discussion focussed on the School SpaceRace and what that will mean for students in Norfolk and Africa, how they can get involved and what it hopes to deliver. Listen to the interview now by clicking play. Alternatively listen to the full programme on the […]

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  • Yellobric Featured in the Eastern Daily Press

    Yellobric featured in the Eastern Daily Press in a double page spread on the 30th of July 2015. Many thanks to the EDP and Mark Nicholls for giving our cause such great exposure. A testimony to everyone who has supported us, partnered us, our staff and all of our students who work so hard to […]

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  • Project Bushbuck

    Yellobric has now embarked upon a new stage in its genesis. Thanks to the The Allan & Nesta Ferguson Charitable Trust we have been able to launch a five year programme in one of South Africa’s poorest regions, Mpumalanga. In 2011 the region had an unemployment rate of over 30% and only around 70% of population between 5 and […]

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