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Time to Talk Day – importance of friendship
On the 7 February 2019, it’s Time to Talk Day – a day to encourage conversations about mental health and raise funds and awareness for charities, Mind and Rethink Mental Illness. Mental health affects one in four of us each year in the UK, with anxiety and depression being the most common problems. Even with so […]
Alan Turing named greatest icon of 20th century
Father of the computer, World War Two code breaker and scientific genius Alan Turing was named the greatest icon of the 20th century in the live final of Icons, co-produced by the BBC and The Open University’s Broadcast and Partnerships team. Turing won the public vote having been pitted against fellow finalists Dr Martin Luther King, […]
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How do junk food adverts affect your children? – new OpenLearn course gives us the facts
The Open University has launched a free OpenLearn course, which explores children’s food, marketing, eating and health in the context of their rights. Children and young people: food and food marketing, asks what the factors are that influence the foods that children eat – is it children’s or parents’ choices? Family or cultural influences? Or the wider food […]
Finlay Games: my OU success story
Finlay Games, 44, from Eastbourne, is studying with The Open University (OU) for an Open Degree. As a transgender man with a history of mental health issues, his recovery experience and gender transition awoke a passion to inspire and support others to make changes in their own lives, in order to overcome personal obstacles to […]
Why Glasgow’s ‘Bolshevist Uprising’ in 1919 wasn’t quite the red threat to UK many believed
January 31 is the centenary of Bloody Friday 1919, in which thousands of protesting workers were attacked in Glasgow’s main civic square by police, causing multiple injuries. Coming barely a year after the Russian Revolution and with insurgency in the air across much of Europe, then Scottish Secretary Robert Munro claimed that Glasgow was in […]
Institute of Coding marks its first anniversary with the OU
The Open University (OU) is celebrating its partnership with the Institute of Coding (IoC), created in January 2018. In just 12 months, IoC partners have successfully signed-up over 5,000 people onto its leading tech courses at universities across the country. To date a total of 5,875 people enrolled onto courses, with 175 staff members employed across […]
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Evelyn Lipmann: In her own words
Evelyn Lipmann survived the Holocaust. She survived internment in four concentration camps; many of her family did not. As a pioneer student of The Open University, she’s asked us to share her story so that future generations can learn from the atrocities that took place. Since publishing her story in August 2018, we have now […]
New contract deal for Associate Lecturers
The Open University (OU) and University and College Union (UCU) have announced the successful negotiation of a new permanent contact for Associate Lecturers (ALs). The 4,000 ALs play a vital role in the delivery of OU course material and are the primary point of contact for all current students. What the new contract means The […]
Millennial burnout: building resilience is no answer – we need to overhaul how we work
Dr Rajvinder Samra, Lecturer in Health at The Open University discusses millennial burnout for The Conversation. In a popular BuzzFeed article, Anne Helen Petersen describes how millennials (people born between 1981 and 1996) became “the burnout generation”. She describes some of the stark consequences of edging towards burnout and identifies what she calls “errand paralysis”, marked by […]
New Appointments
The Open University has recently made a number of new appointments to its senior leadership team. Pro-Chancellor – Malcolm Sweeting Malcolm Sweeting has taken up the role of Pro-Chancellor effective from Tuesday 1 January. He has a widely established reputation as a leading corporate finance lawyer at home and abroad; most recently focusing on the […]
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