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Computing graduate, Nathanial Lawrence

Open University helped Nathanial get his dream job in IT

‘’When I started my degree I was asked by a colleague what my dream job was, well my dream job is actually the job I’m doing now and there’s no way I would have got it without my OU degree.’’   Working full time, 34-year-old Nathanial Lawrence had set his sights on a networking and […]

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Sleeping teenager

The biological reason why it’s so hard for teenagers to wake up early for school

In societies the world over, teenagers are blamed for staying up late, then struggling to wake up in the morning. While it’s true that plenty of teenagers (like many adults) do have bad bedtime habits, researchers have long since proven that this global problem has a biological cause. In 2004, researchers at the University of […]

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