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		<title>An inaugural fanfare for the common man</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In June 2013 it will be have been 40 years since The Open University hosted its first graduation ceremony. While the political and social landscape has undergone many changes since then, the sense of excitement and pride remains today. Openminds looked back on 1973 in this article: In its 44-year history, the OU has hosted more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Death of former Professors in History of Science</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 11:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[News has reached us that Colin Archibald Russell (7 September 1928 &#8211; 17 May 2013) the Emeritus Professor in History of Science, the Open University has died. His BSC was awarded by the University of London and he went on to teach chemistry at Kingston and Preston while also studying for a M SC and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>18th May 1970: the laying of a foundation stone, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 23:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Weinbren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Born in 1900 Louis Mountbatten was home-schooled, then attended a school in Hertfordshire and the Royal Naval College. Following Service in the First World War he became a mature student as he attended Cambridge for two terms where he studied engineering in a programme that was specially designed for ex-servicemen. He later returned to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OU staff debate the history of the OU</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 11:08:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The OU: collective creation or top-down imposition?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 08:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Weinbren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Much of the reporting of the recent development of universities laments the passing of a golden age. Sometimes these accounts are a burnished and reconstructed version of the past which portray universities as victims. However, the OU has played a more active role. It is the case that during the two decades following the late 1980s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jennie, Betty and the changing of the world</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 09:23:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Weinbren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Sunday 28th April 2013 the Independent on Sunday listed &#8216;the 100 British women who, arguably, have done most to shape the world we live in today&#8217;. They included two women associated with the OU, Betty Boothroyd, the former OU Chancellor and Jennie Lee about whom it was written ‘her legacy as a minister in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Systems and students</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 08:02:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Weinbren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Often the OU is seen in terms of systems. It also needs to be understood in terms of students. At its foundation the OU’s first Chancellor, Lord Geoffrey Crowther, made it clear that teaching and learning were to be at the core of the new institution. He argued that &#8216;the first and most urgent task before [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Royal Charter anniversary</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 23:02:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Weinbren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Royal Charter was presented on 23rd April 1969, before there were any OU students. This early Royal ndorsement indicates the aims of the university. These are largely unsurprising for a university. It should advance and disseminate learning and knowledge. However, unusually for a university the OU is also ‘to promote the educational well-being of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Margaret Thatcher and The Open University</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 12:02:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Weinbren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Education Secretary in the early 1970s Margaret Thatcher made two decisions which illustrate her long-term approach to higher education. The first one was to ignore the patrician voices in her own party which derided the newly-opened Open University. She opted to retain Labour’s project. However, there was a twist. She wanted the OU to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marxist bias?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 09:36:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Weinbren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[History, Marx argued repeats itself, ‘first as tragedy, then as farce’. At the OU there has been a rerun of the Marxist bias stories. In the 1980s it was Conservative Ministers who claimed to have found Marxists at the OU. Today it is Education Secretary Michael Gove. One hundred academics, including one associated with the [...]]]></description>
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