Courses

Welcome to the first course in a series dedicated to training people from scratch to become AI Engineers.

This is a course for learning how to work with Python, a very popular programming language and widely used in the field of web development, data science and artificial intelligence. No previous experience with programming is needed.

The course will run every Saturday for every week of September. We start at 10 am and stop at 6 pm, making the course a total of 32 hours.

​Let’s dive into the essentials of personal finance to take control of your financial future. Designed for adults with little to no prior experience, this course emphasises practical application. You’ll create a personalised monthly budget, explore strategies for saving and managing debt, learn to track expenses effectively, and get introduced to the basics of investing. By the end, you’ll have actionable plans and tools to automate your finances and work towards your goals.

​Disclaimer: This course is for educational purposes only. It does not constitute financial advice. For personal recommendations, please use FCA-regulated guidance or advisers.

​​This is a 3-session course at Shoshin College.

The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
(Oscar Wilde, Salome)

​The question of love is largely avoided and suspected in the contemporary political and philosophical terrain though once was one of the most significant philosophical concepts (Plato’s eros, Aristotle’s philia and Augustine’s caritas, Kierkegaard’s love for the other human being or the love for God); while for the field of psychoanalysis, love is the cure (Freud).

​​Most people know The Lord of the Rings from the films. But that story is just the final chapter of a much larger tale. Tolkien created an entire mythology to give his world a sense of real, lived depth, filled with myths, epic wars, doomed romances, and the rise and fall of elven, dwarven, and human kingdoms.

​​This three-session course is a friendly, story-driven introduction to those deeper legends. You’ll meet characters whose choices shaped the events of the films, discover where Sauron came from, and see why the Elves feel their time in Middle-earth is ending.

​​This is a 3-session course at Shoshin College.

​Open Source is a way of producing software that makes it possible to share code. It’s also so much more — a way of thinking about sharing knowledge, collaborating, and innovating together. This course draws on twenty-five years of adventures in open source, covering the political consequences of technical decisions, democratic and radical politics and how to draw on this history to challenge the current cultural and infrastructural dominance of big tech platforms.