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Since the outbreak of the Coronavirus, more and more people across Wales are turning to the OU’s OpenLearn site to enrol on free courses. 

Innovative training has been developed to assist Cardiff’s teachers in continuing to provide education and learning to children and young people during school closures, caused by COVID-19.

The Open University (OU) in Wales is encouraging people to follow one of its online courses whilst being asked to stay at home during the Coronavirus pandemic.

The OU has seen a spike in visitors to its free online learning platform OpenLearn to access its health, wellbeing and educational content in a time of huge societal need.

The site usually sees an average of 835,000 unique visitors per month. In March 2020, this shot up to 1.77 million and is at 1.64 million for April.

The Open University in Wales has been working with the Welsh Government to provide new e-learning for workers furloughed as a result of coronavirus (COVID-19). 

The Open University has seen a spike in visitors to its free online learning platform OpenLearn to access its health, wellbeing and educational content in a time of huge societal need.

An innovative project has brought together universities, further education colleges and industries across South Wales to share and develop ideas,and examine the ways in which they can work better together.

The £1.2m HEFCW funded Partnership for Innovation in Education (PIE) programme, has facilitated more than 60 workshops and masterclasses, and more than 100 staff and industry placements over the last year. 

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We caught up with our student, Sam Evans, who’s from Cardiff and is studying physics. To mark International Women’s Day, she told us about the women from The Open University and across the globe who’ve encouraged her on her path into medical physics. 

Our OpenTalks series returned to Cardiff for ‘Let’s talk about menopause’, a free event held in partnership with Henpicked. The discussion encouraged conversation around menopause, including ways that employers could support colleagues going through menopause and the different medical, diet, holistic, and lifestyle interventions available for those experiencing menopausal symptoms.