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Top tips for a greener Christmas
It’s the most wonderful time of the year, but perhaps not the most environmentally conscious time of the year. While it may sound Scrooge-like, Christmas can be a very wasteful period – but there are things you can do to make your festivities greener. We spoke to Dr Catherine Rolph, Lecturer in Environmental Engineering at […]
Top 10 OpenLearn courses of 2022
It’s been quite a year for The Open University’s free learning site, OpenLearn, as it reached the ripe old age of 16 and celebrated over 100 million visitors to the site. With the cost-of-living crisis hitting, the superb ‘Academy of Money’ course in partnership with Money Saving Expert has helped over 50,000 people to get […]
How “killer” asteroids saved planet Earth
A new international study shows how Earth got its water These days, asteroids get a very bad press. As depicted in blockbuster movies, such as Don’t Look Up, we see asteroids as a potential source of grave danger to humanity. It doesn’t help that, 66 million years ago, a giant asteroid wiped out about 75% […]
Report uncovers several areas that urgently need addressing in the investigations of rape and other sexual offences
Findings from Operation Soteria Bluestone, a report launched in 2021 as a response to the government End-to-End Rape Review, have revealed several areas that urgently need addressing in the investigations of rape and other sexual offences (RAOSO). The report has been published as part of the Home Office’s pledge to increase the number of rape […]
First cohort of Isle of Wight nurses graduate with the OU
The Isle of Wight NHS Trust has just celebrated its first cohort of registered nurse degree apprentices, who have completed their nursing qualifications in partnership with The Open University (OU). Like many other NHS organisations across the country, the Trust has found it challenging to recruit enough nursing professionals to fill vacancies. This new programme, […]
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First wave of colleges to receive OU support to boost skills in their local communities
The first wave of colleges in England that will receive support from The Open University (OU) to develop their higher technical educational offering has been announced today. Backed by £10milion of UK Government funding, the OU will be working with colleges across England to support colleges put on a wider range of advanced technical courses, […]
OU secures £5.8m to build extended reality studio
The Open University (OU) has secured funding of £5.8m from the Office for Students to develop extended reality studios to expand its teaching and learning with augmented and virtual reality. Open XR Studios will feature state-of-the-art equipment to capture, reproduce and render 4D imagery. It will deliver immersive and reality-embedded learning to students in their […]
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It’s official – the OU is ranked in the Inclusive Top 50 UK Employers
The Open University is celebrating after learning it has been ranked in the Inclusive Top 50 UK employers. The Inclusive Companies organisation, which puts together the rankings, describes itself as the premier cross-industry network “harnessing best practices and innovation to drive inclusion for all”. Last year’s top 50 included Bupa, E-On, TalkTalk and a whole […]
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Sunak’s first major foreign policy speech “worryingly divorced from reality”, says OU academic
An OU academic has criticised the Prime Minister’s foreign policy speech at London’s Guildhall delivered recently. Professor Jamie Gaskarth, Professor of foreign policy and international relations, says there was no mention of the economic crisis the UK is facing; no recognition that the aid budget has been gutted and that proposed increases in defence will […]
Our US$10 trillion global energy bill dwarfs what’s needed to limit global heating
Stephen Peake is a Professor of Climate Change and Energy. Here he talks about the world’s addiction to energy, our wasteful use of it and how we can do something about it. The world’s energy bill for 2022 is set to be the highest ever, topping US$10 trillion (£8.3 trillion). This is the total price […]
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