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Baseline Survey Report published: Implementing the Transformation of Police Learning and Development:

August 17, 2018

The ‘Implementing the Transformation of Police Training, Learning and Development’ Project released their Baseline Survey Report this week. The project…

We live in a populist age – but who are ‘the people’?
August 9, 2018
Back to the future: looking back at predictions on regional development
August 6, 2018
Back to the future: what we said about education and Astronomy
August 6, 2018
Back to the future: revisiting our education predictions
August 6, 2018

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Education, languages and health

John Domingue – The Future of Education

August 2, 2018

Professor John Domingue, Director of the OU’s Knowledge Media Institute, discusses developments in technology which he sees impacting on education in the long and short term as part of our…

Fake news and the need for ‘social’ digital literacy
August 1, 2018
Explainer: how online is making learning more accessible
July 27, 2018
Five things teachers and students need to know about online learning
July 26, 2018
Ethics in Artificial Intelligence in education: Who Cares?
July 25, 2018

Science, maths and technology

OU’s research offers new-generation online police training

August 1, 2018

Technology is being used more and more for training purposes in all walks of working life, to reach a younger more tech-familiar audience. The Open University’s award-winning Child Witness Interview…

We know there is water on Mars – what next?
July 31, 2018
New Research Network to support the UK’s Food Manufacturing Digital Economy
July 31, 2018
OU launches plastic waste initiative with BBC
July 28, 2018
From cradle to grave – new model identifies factors that have shaped evolution
July 20, 2018

Arts and social sciences

Three days is still too long to hold pregnant women in immigration detention

July 25, 2018

It’s been two years since a coalition of lobbying groups in the UK successfully challenged Home Office policy on the immigration detention of pregnant women. Under the new policy, enforced…

In depth: What is a smart city?
July 23, 2018
An ear to the coast for World Listening Day
July 17, 2018
A hard Brexit is looking increasingly likely – according to behavioural economics
June 25, 2018
Spain’s prime minister loses no-confidence vote: what next?
June 4, 2018

Business and Law

The Prosecutors: new series throws light on Crown Prosecution Service

July 25, 2018

The second series of The Prosecutors, co-produced by The Open University and Gold Star Productions for the BBC, begins on Thursday 2 August at 9pm on BBC Two, with the…