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Targeted genome editing: Introducing the CRISPR/Cas9 system
Science, Maths & Technology

Targeted genome editing: Introducing the CRISPR/Cas9 system

...OU research student, Sonia Azeggagh, explains the impact of this genome editing technology on biology and medicine:...CRISPR/Cas9 is a genome editing technology that has revolutionised biology. Developed in 2012 in a collaboration between the laboratories of Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna, CRISPR/Cas9 has allowed what were previously powerful yet...
About OpenLearn Wales
OpenLearn Cymru Wales

About OpenLearn Wales

...become an Open University student and does not award credits, grant degrees or provide access to services available for registered students. However, OpenLearn Wales does give you access to a wealth of excellent educational resources that you can study whenever and wherever you want. You will get the most from OpenLearn if you create an account (this is also free)....
Reeta Chakrabarti on language and culture
Languages

Reeta Chakrabarti on language and culture

...English became terribly artificial and simpering, and I know that friends of mine didn’t like her; French friends of mine didn’t like her. In French I couldn’t understand why, and in English I could. This interview is adapted from The Open University course Exploring Languages And Cultures. Find out how you can become a student on this course, or try a free extract....
Should we educate prisoners?
Society, Politics & Law

Should we educate prisoners?

...become one enduring feature of the UK’s criminal justice system. However, when it comes to Higher Education in prison, the approach is currently somewhat chaotic, which means that for many prisoners, access to Higher Education can be a lottery, depending on the particular prison that they find themselves in. For example, structural barriers such as the so-called...
More ‘salad bowl’ than ‘melting pot’
Society, Politics & Law

More ‘salad bowl’ than ‘melting pot’

...becomes an interesting study for students of sociology or for observers of society. This coexistence is not always peaceful. There have been awful violations of human dignity in the recent past in Gujarat, Kashmir…yet Indian School showcases how most of India lives, a ‘salad bowl’ not a ‘melting pot’. Each community preserves its unique flavour, rubbing off on...
Decolonisation and Higher Education: Closing the Degree Awarding Gap
Education & Development

Decolonisation and Higher Education: Closing the Degree Awarding Gap

...students, rather than institutions and educators. Data about the gap refers to students obtaining ‘good’ classifications in their degrees, either firsts or seconds. According to Advance HE (2020), in the 2019/20 academic year, the proportion of white students who graduated with a first or upper second-class degree was significantly higher than their black counter...
Secondary learning
Education & Development

Secondary learning

...becomes an act of depositing, in which the students are the depositories and the teacher is the depositor. (Freire, 1970, p. 53) With this view, the teacher’s pedagogical role is: to ‘fill’ the students by making deposits of information which he or she considers to constitute true knowledge. (Freire, 1970, p. 57) The potential consequences for children’s...
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Derry Air: the new local history
Society, Politics & Law

Derry Air: the new local history

...OU, Ruth Finnegan, OBE, FBA took a trip to her birthplace she reflected afresh about the sources scholars use and the importance of memory, imagination and sounds, the feeling of a place...[Derry Air, society matters cartoon] Part of the meaning of any place – or building – or settlement – is how people feel about it, define it for themselves. And to investigate...