{"id":1122,"date":"2011-03-02T09:30:45","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T08:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/?p=1122"},"modified":"2011-03-01T22:29:42","modified_gmt":"2011-03-01T21:29:42","slug":"why-study-at-the-ou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/?p=1122","title":{"rendered":"Images of students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/advert-19711.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1129\" title=\"advert 1971\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/advert-19711-291x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"291\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>In 1971 half a dozen models appeared under the headline \u2018Which is The Open University student? They were dressed to indicate different trades and the copy referred to specific posts which students might hold, \u2018engineers, nurses, shopkeepers, teachers, shopfloor and officeworkers\u2026\u2019 The advertisement explained that students could receive a grant, could \u2018study in your spare time\u2019 and could \u2018tune in to sample our radio and television broadcasts\u2019. These six role models indicated the range of students, though the OU also took students with severe disabilities, who were in prison and those who were serving overseas in the Services (and their civilian associates). It was also open to students from ethnic minority backgrounds. Since that time there have been many other advertisements for the\u00a0OU and many images produced for it. Perhaps you became aware of the OU because of\u00a0a specific image or advertisement? In order to compose a history of the OU we\u2019d like to hear what attracted you to the university.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1971 half a dozen models appeared under the headline \u2018Which is The Open University student? They were dressed to indicate different trades and the copy referred to specific posts which students might hold, \u2018engineers, nurses, shopkeepers, teachers, shopfloor and officeworkers\u2026\u2019 The advertisement explained that students could receive a grant, could \u2018study in your spare [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advertising"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1122"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1124,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122\/revisions\/1124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}