{"id":6561,"date":"2017-10-26T19:09:38","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T18:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ounews.co\/?p=6561"},"modified":"2017-10-26T19:09:38","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T18:09:38","slug":"vice-chancellor-peter-horrocks-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/around-ou\/ou-speaks-out\/vice-chancellor-peter-horrocks-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Three things the OU is doing to make a difference for part-time students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vice-Chancellor of The Open University, Peter Horrocks, updates our students in this video. He focuses on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Talking to students, meeting graduates at <a href=\"https:\/\/ounews.co\/around-ou\/university-news\/age-is-no-barrier-to-success\/\">degree ceremonies<\/a>\u00a0and using<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PeterHorrocks\"> social media<\/a><\/li>\n<li>What he is doing to fight for the interests of part-time students &#8211; you can <a href=\"https:\/\/ounews.co\/around-ou\/ou-speaks-out\/the-real-casualty-of-the-2012-tuition-fees-shake-up-mature-and-part-time-learners\/\">read more about his views in this article<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Planning for the future of The Open University as we approach our <a href=\"http:\/\/giving.open.ac.uk\/projects\/sharing-50-years-of-education?field_tags_target_id=3\">milestone birthday<\/a> &#8211; ensuring that our next 50 years are as strong, innovative and flexible as our first 50 years have been<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Vice-Chancellor student update\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c8zKtfk780g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice-Chancellor of The Open University, Peter Horrocks, updates our students in this video. He focuses on: Talking to students, meeting graduates at degree ceremonies\u00a0and using social media What he is doing to fight for the interests of part-time students &#8211; you can read more about his views in this article Planning for the future of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2367,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[1699],"class_list":["post-6561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ou-speaks-out","tag-peter-horrocks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}