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OU Student Volunteers explain how they give back
Last year, more than 570 Open University students volunteered through The Open University Students Association (OUSA). During Student Volunteering Week,…
How do junk food adverts affect your children? – new OpenLearn course gives us the facts
The Open University has launched a free OpenLearn course, which explores children’s food, marketing, eating and health in the context of their rights. Children and young people: food and food marketing, asks…
Institute of Coding marks its first anniversary with the OU
The Open University (OU) is celebrating its partnership with the Institute of Coding (IoC), created in January 2018. In just 12 months, IoC partners have successfully signed-up over 5,000 people onto…
Why Glasgow’s ‘Bolshevist Uprising’ in 1919 wasn’t quite the red threat to UK many believed
January 31 is the centenary of Bloody Friday 1919, in which thousands of protesting workers were attacked in Glasgow’s main civic square by police, causing multiple injuries. Coming barely a…
Dyson; Why Asia?
James Dyson, the vacuum cleaning pioneer and vocal Brexit supporter, is causing some stir with his decision to relocate the headquarters of his business to Singapore. Dr Raquel García-García and…
New contract deal for Associate Lecturers
The Open University (OU) and University and College Union (UCU) have announced the successful negotiation…
New Appointments
The Open University has recently made a number of new appointments to its senior leadership…
