Description
Film of notable events from the OU's early history. The contributors give their views on the OU's achievements over the past ten years.
| 1 | 00:00:00,000 | 00:00:01,000 | Open Forum 41 (1979) FOUD049H |
| 2 | 00:00:01,000 | 00:00:02,000 | (David Grugeon) The ceremony at which the charter was actually presented… |
| 3 | 00:00:03,000 | 00:00:06,000 | ..took place at the Royal Society. Everyone connected with the project… |
| 4 | 00:00:07,000 | 00:00:11,000 | ..was present; Harold Wilson, Jennie Lee, Vice Chancellors and politicians. |
| 5 | 00:00:12,000 | 00:00:15,000 | The occasion took on a mood of academic ponderousness which gave no… |
| 6 | 00:00:15,000 | 00:00:18,000 | ..hint of the startling innovations contained in the traditional-looking… |
| 7 | 00:00:19,000 | 00:00:21,000 | ..document that was presented to Sir Peter Venables as Chairman… |
| 8 | 00:00:22,000 | 00:00:28,000 | ..of the Planning Committee. Then Geoffrey Crowther was installed as… |
| 9 | 00:00:29,000 | 00:00:32,000 | ..our first Chancellor, an appropriate choice with his famous report… |
| 10 | 00:00:32,000 | 00:00:35,000 | ..that noted how many have missed out on higher education. |
| 11 | 00:00:37,000 | 00:00:41,000 | Geoffrey Crowther: The first and most urgent task before us is to cater… |
| 12 | 00:00:42,000 | 00:00:45,000 | ..for the many thousands of people fully capable of a higher education, |
| 13 | 00:00:46,000 | 00:00:50,000 | who for one reason or another, do not get it, or do not… |
| 14 | 00:00:51,000 | 00:00:54,000 | ..get as much of it as they can turn to advantage or… |
| 15 | 00:00:55,000 | 00:00:58,000 | ..as they discover, sometimes too late, that they need. |
| 16 | 00:01:00,000 | 00:01:04,000 | Only in recent years have we come to realise how many such people… |
| 17 | 00:01:05,000 | 00:01:09,000 | ..there are, and how large are the gaps in educational provision… |
| 18 | 00:01:10,000 | 00:01:14,000 | ..through which they can fall. The existing system for all its… |
| 19 | 00:01:15,000 | 00:01:19,000 | ..its great expansion misses and leaves aside a great unused… |
| 20 | 00:01:20,000 | 00:01:22,000 | ..reservoir of human talent and potential. |
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