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Wales and music: a conversation with Huw Stephens
History & The Arts

Wales and music: a conversation with Huw Stephens

...Open University’s music courses  Dr Martin V. Clarke and Dr Helen Barlow sit down to talk with radio DJ and TV presenter Huw Stephens about the idea of Wales as a ‘musical nation’. This discussion took place on 28 November 2022, following the OU / BBC TV series Wales: Music Nation, presented by Huw Stephens. Read more about the OU experts who took part below. [Dr...
Racial inequities in health: The impact of COVID-19 in Wales and beyond
Health, Sports & Psychology

Racial inequities in health: The impact of COVID-19 in Wales and beyond

...Open. 2021 Aug 18;11(8):e048335. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34408047/ Karl Murray (2020) The impact of COVID-19 on BAME Community and Voluntary Sector Organisations in Wales: Innovation, Resilience and Sustainability Saltus, R (2020) Holding on to the gains: Understanding the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on BAME groups in Wales Saltus, R (2020) On yearning for the...
The Lee Jeans Occupation, Greenock, 1981
Society, Politics & Law

The Lee Jeans Occupation, Greenock, 1981

...Open University's Social Sciences courses Between February and August 1981, the mostly women workers at Greenock’s Lee Jeans factory defied management intentions to close the plant. At a time when female unemployment in Greenock was 50% higher than in Scotland as a whole, the women argued that their factory was feasible and that corporate greed was the reason for...
Decolonisation and Higher Education: Closing the Degree Awarding Gap
Education & Development

Decolonisation and Higher Education: Closing the Degree Awarding Gap

...Open University, 2020) has discussed the challenges of achieving diversity within higher education: ‘I don’t think a lot of the time that those structures are then modified to support the inclusion…a lot of times it’s tokenistic’. She adds that ‘a lot of times you talk about inclusion as bringing someone to the table. And the thing is who decides what the...
Collaborative problem solving for community safety
Money & Business

Collaborative problem solving for community safety

...Open University so that its students can be fairly sure of the quality of their sources. This is known as the PROMPT checklist, and is shown in the video below. NARRATOR: The PROMPT checklist is a technique to help you evaluate the quality of information that you find online. P is for presentation and refers to the appearance of the website and how clearly the information...
Life Launchpad
Education & Development

Life Launchpad

...Open University’s Open degree qualification This bespoke and curated content from the hundreds of courses and resources available on OpenLearn can be used to enhance existing subject knowledge or explore new passions. Moreover, we’ve also collected a range of resources for life outside of education, such as finance, life skills and career guidance. Why not explore the...
Explore flexible online learning
Education & Development

Explore flexible online learning

...Open University offers flexible part-time study, supported distance and open learning for undergraduate and postgraduate courses and qualifications. OpenLearn is the home of free online learning offered by the OU. There are hundreds of flexible courses that players can combine with a busy training and match schedule. ...[PFA and OU logos] Whatever your ambition, start by...
Battle of Thermopylae
History & The Arts

Battle of Thermopylae

...open with data from the Histories, which will enable you to search for any place that Herodotus mentions and find out what he has to say about it. To take your exploration of mapping further, look up some sources to explain what's happened to the coastline at Thermypolae in the last 2,500 years. What could the coastline have looked like when the battle took place? Compare...