Science, Maths & Technology
Science experiment: The density tower
In this video, the OU's Janet Sumner shows you how to conduct a simple density tower experiment using everyday household liquids...Density Tower template Transcript
Education & Development
School geography: Exploring a definition
...become too subject focused we may lose sight of the individual needs of children (and indeed, the ways schools serve wider societal goals). Thus, the student voice is important and the subject can seem fragmented and distant. See what one student, Jessica, had to say by clicking on 'view document' below. View document Wider and deeper considerations are also important. In...
Society, Politics & Law
Boys will be boys?
...become a key focus of public and political anxiety over the past decade or so. During this period a number of concerns about young men’s behaviour and wellbeing have gained prominence, ranging from worries about their educational under-achievement relative to girls, to an increasing growing awareness of the suicide rate and mental health problems among boys. Young men...
Society, Politics & Law
Why are synthetic drugs such a problem for the UK's prisons?
...OU's David Scott explains why...[The US navy warning poster against Spice] UK prisons aren't the only ones struggling to cope with Spice, as this US Navy warning poster shows The BBC’s Panorama documentary on HMP Northumberland put the problem of drug taking in prisons firmly under the spotlight. The terrible harms that psychoactive drugs create for both prisoners and...
Science, Maths & Technology
Mosquitoes & Malaria
...OU course Biology: Uniformity and Diversity (S204). One of the most widespread infectious diseases of human beings is malaria, which kills more people than any other parasitic eukaryote, mainly in tropical countries. The agents which cause malaria are protoctists, Plasmodium spp. (phylum 11, Apicomplexa), whose life cycle provides a classic example in which there are...
Miscellaneous
Why school is bad for us - an inaugural lecture by Professor Jonathan Rix
...OU academic. Jonathan Rix, Professor of Participation and Learning Support in the Faculty of Wellbeing, Education & Language Studies at The Open University, will deliver his inaugural lecture on Why school is bad for us – lessons we need to learn, on Thursday 16 November at The Open University, when he will explore this obsession and ask if there are some simple ways to...
Languages
Can I use 'we' and 'I' in my essay? Introducing corpus linguistics
...student essays, for example, looking on Google wouldn't be a very good way to go about it. And if we wanted to know if one group of students (for example Engineering students) use 'we' in their academic writing more than another group (such as History students) then an internet search wouldn't be any help at all. To answer the question in the title to this article, we'd...
Education & Development
Parent guide to university applications and beyond
...Student Recruitment Officer at University of South Wales, a parent of two daughters who have attended university recently. They take you through the application process, show how to get started with Student Finance and ways to support your young person with this big step. [University of South Wales logo] This resource was provided by the University of South Wales and is...