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Russia’s top space official tried to claim that the planet Venus belongs to the Kremlin – Sports Grind Entertainment
An image of Venus and its thick clouds taken by NASA’s Mariner 10 mission during a planetary flyby maneuver on February 7 and 8, 1974. Kevin M. Gill/NASA/JPL-Caletech The director-general of Russian space corporation Roscosmos claimed this week that Venus is …
Durham University has made a determined effort to recruit more female computer science students
I’ve been told two stories in recent days about the gender gap in computing education.
The good news: a major university has doubled the number of women arriving to study computer science in the space of a year.
The bad: the latest GCSE figures show the number of girls getting any kind of computing qualification at school continues to decline.
Doubling up
The optimism comes from Durham University…
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