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A look back over the past 25 years at the history of The Open University, includes footage of the Beatles, Harold Wilson and the background to Jennie Lee's life and childhood.
| 1 | 00:00:00,000 | 00:00:01,000 | Blithering Nonsense FOUF380N |
| 2 | 00:00:01,000 | 00:00:03,000 | Gill Kirkup: Lots of women saw the potential of the University, |
| 3 | 00:00:04,000 | 00:00:08,000 | and once we got women in we were able to really support them… |
| 4 | 00:00:09,000 | 00:00:11,000 | ..and women have always been very successful in the University. |
| 5 | 00:00:12,000 | 00:00:15,000 | Fiona Davies: I started with the Open University seven years ago and… |
| 6 | 00:00:16,000 | 00:00:20,000 | .. at that time I think the general feeling was that, perhaps some employers anyway, |
| 7 | 00:00:21,000 | 00:00:25,000 | didn’t regard an Open University degree as being on the same level as… |
| 8 | 00:00:26,000 | 00:00:30,000 | ..a conventional degree from a normal university where you’re studying full time. |
| 9 | 00:00:31,000 | 00:00:34,000 | Nowadays I think actually it’s almost gone the other way, |
| 10 | 00:00:35,000 | 00:00:38,000 | that people do know more about the Open University, about what’s involved in… |
| 11 | 00:00:39,000 | 00:00:43,000 | ..studying for a degree and they actually seem to give a lot more credit… |
| 12 | 00:00:44,000 | 00:00:46,000 | ..to people who’ve gone through that system and shown that they can… |
| 13 | 00:00:47,000 | 00:00:51,000 | ..actually study, perhaps while they’re holding down a job at the same time. |
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