News from The Open University
Book Chat – OU partners with Macmillan Children’s Books to extend its Reading for Pleasure work to families
The Open University has launched Book Chat: Reading with your Child, a resource which comprises three short films and support materials to help parents, families and carers read books conversationally…
Coronavirus ‘excess deaths’: why England and Wales have been hardest hit in Europe – new study
Kevin McConway, Emeritus Professor of Applied Statistics at The Open University, speaks on the numbers behind the global pandemic and explains why England and Wales have experienced ‘high excess deaths’…
OU relationships academic is made a Fellow
Jacqui Gabb, Professor of Sociology and Intimacy at The Open University, has been named among this year’s Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS) FAcSS is the national academy…
Taxing financial winners from coronavirus to pay for the crisis – lessons from WW1
Janette Rutherford, Emeritus Professor of Finance and Financial History at The Open University, reflects on similarities made between the current UK Government’s actions during the current COVID-19 pandemic and those…
National roll out for successful OU and Jobcentre Plus scheme to upskill jobseekers
An initiative between The Open University (OU), the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) and…
OU director awarded OBE for services to education and the arts
The Open University’s Director in Ireland, John D’Arcy, has been awarded an OBE in the…
