Contents Features
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Teaching technology
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Inside further education college’s new building
Welcome to The Brent Magazine
IT learning Computer charity trains borough’s residents
Suburban wonder Museum’s Trobridge exhibition to open
Technology champions
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Brent schools win IT awards
A hi-tech help Technology helps people live independently
Digital innovation Gadgets help Brent Council’s services
Screen success Schoolboy’s winning animation
Regulars Update
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Brent people
James Diamond Editor The Brent Magazine
All in a day’s work
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Secret history Competitions Time out
Issue No. 99 February 2010 The Brent Magazine contacts Distribution queries and editorial 020 8937 1068 tbm@brent.gov.uk Advertising 020 8937 1097 advertising@brent.gov.uk Published by the London Borough of Brent, Town Hall, Forty Lane, Wembley Middlesex.
This month The Brent Magazine is looking at how technology is transforming our lives. We are profiling some of the most up-to-date facilities for technical education at the College of North West London. The college’s new technology building is ensuring that youngsters and people in work can get the very best in vocational education. Technology is also helping people through systems such as Telecare. It is helping to make sure vulnerable people can live in their own home independently. Brent’s schools have also adapted to new technology and are winning IT awards for their work. For those who may feel left out of the technological revolution a charity in Alperton is helping to train people. Finally, Secret History shows that at least one important development in computing began in Dollis Hill.
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