{"id":1228,"date":"2011-04-04T09:28:05","date_gmt":"2011-04-04T08:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/?p=1228"},"modified":"2011-04-04T09:35:59","modified_gmt":"2011-04-04T08:35:59","slug":"a-brilliant-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/?p=1228","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;A brilliant session&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0That is how AHRC Council member Rick Trainor described the Economic History Society session on &#8216;The Big Society&#8217;. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/rick-trainor.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1232\" title=\"rick trainor\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/rick-trainor.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"90\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a>In recent days there has been much debate about the role of the AHRC in\u00a0regard to\u00a0The Big Society. In regard to this matter there are comments and further links available via the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeshighereducation.co.uk\/story.asp?sectioncode=26&amp;storycode=415641&amp;c=1 \" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker ('\/outbound\/article\/www.timeshighereducation.co.uk');\">Times Higher<\/a>\u00a0and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/blogs\/cultural-capital\/2011\/03\/society-research-ahrc-arts\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker ('\/outbound\/article\/www.newstatesman.com');\">New Statesman <\/a>and there is an account by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jbsumner.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/that-ahrchaldane-dust-up-in-chronological-order\/\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker ('\/outbound\/article\/www.jbsumner.com');\">James Sumner<\/a>. The\u00a0academic conference debate attended by Professor Trainor was was\u00a0an example of academics coming together to assess the idea within a historical context.\u00a0 The government might not frame its social, educational and economic policies in\u00a0the light of the ideas constructed and contested by academics but it now has to option to consider their views and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0That is how AHRC Council member Rick Trainor described the Economic History Society session on &#8216;The Big Society&#8217;. In recent days there has been much debate about the role of the AHRC in\u00a0regard to\u00a0The Big Society. In regard to this matter there are comments and further links available via the Times Higher\u00a0and the New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,44],"tags":[173],"class_list":["post-1228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ideas","category-people","tag-rick-trainor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228","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=1228"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1233,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions\/1233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1228"}],"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=1228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}