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Postgraduate study: Education, Childhood & Youth
Education & Development

Postgraduate study: Education, Childhood & Youth

...Masters in Education programme. If you would like to know more or have any questions please email WELS-ECYS-Masters@open.ac.uk. We will continue to add to this page so please keep checking back for the latest updates. Contribute to the topical debates and discussions by posting a comment below or join us on Twitter: Tweets by Education, Childhood and Youth (PG) Open Uni...
How can education contribute to sustainability?
Education & Development

How can education contribute to sustainability?

...Open University MA Education are doing...The environment is one of three key drivers for education for the future identified on our Masters in Education (Learning and Teaching) qualification as urgently needing our attention as educators. In our Badged course Looking Globally: The Future of Education, in relation to an environmental issue affecting ......
Transitioning from home education to employment
Education & Development

Transitioning from home education to employment

...educated adults...Find out more about The Open University’s Childhood and Youth Studies qualification. The recent ‘Strengthening Home Education’ (2021) report commissioned by the DfE and the House of Commons Education Committee highlighted the need for research that explores the social outcomes of home education. In particular, employment is an area of society that...
How home educators access exams
Education & Development

How home educators access exams

...educated in England. No accurate data is available on how many of these children sit national examinations each year. However, a study during the Covid pandemic shed light on challenges when the exams were cancelled, and some significant inequalities came to light...Find out more about The Open University’s Childhood and Youth Studies qualification. Home educators, at...
Are you a socially intelligent educational leader?
Education & Development

Are you a socially intelligent educational leader?

...education and beyond...Are leaders expected to be all things to all people? You might think this isn’t possible, or that it seems impractical or unrealistic, and you may be correct in thinking this. On the other hand, you may also think that it’s important to be inclusive of others, and that social spaces should be inclusive in nature. Your thinking in this respect...
Teaching equality: unconscious bias in education
Education & Development

Teaching equality: unconscious bias in education

...Education’s ‘targeted groups;’ English as an Additional Language, Pupil Premium, Special Educational Needs, School Action. All of which categorically avoided identifying Black and brown students and the need to scrutinise their progress against their white counterparts. Perhaps the policy had similar intentions as my younger self – remove labels of race which...
Women and the fight to reclaim higher education
Society, Politics & Law

Women and the fight to reclaim higher education

...education across Scotland and the rest of the UK in the 2020s...Find out more about The Open University's History and Social Sciences courses Background In the context of the growing ‘cost of living crisis’ in 2022, it’s unsurprising that trade union activity in Scotland has featured regularly in public discourse. Waste and recycling workers made headlines when they...
Ms Yang on British and Chinese education
Education & Development

Ms Yang on British and Chinese education

...education in Britain and China and reflects on her experiences. ...If you've been watching our OU/BBC co-production Are our kids tough enough? Chinese School you may be interested to hear the Chinese science teacher's, Ms Yang, opinions of the programme, her experience at the school and what she thinks about the Chinese and British education systems. Select from the...