Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations and Scottish Local Authorities have partnered up with the Open University to provide a selection of free training courses to enhance your career prospects and opportunities.
Scotland OpenLearning Champions Hub: This hub showcases the content on OpenLearn as an introduction to learners, and highlights the wide range of materials that have a Scottish context.
If you’re reading this, you’re one of our amazing OpenLearning champions and we’re excited you’re here. Whether you have been doing this for years or just started, we cannot thank you enough for the fantastic work you do for learners across Scotland.
The site, a partnership between The Open University in Scotland and the Scottish Wider Access Programme (SWAP), brings together introductory level OpenLearn courses relevant to students studying SWAP courses. SWAP students can find courses that offer new topics to explore, build on their study with SWAP, and help prepare for further study at university. We hope these resources will help you on your educational journey.
Scottish football clubs have partnered with The Open University to provide a selection of free training courses to enhance your career prospects and opportunities.
Lois Nicholson’s poem highlights the contribution made by women workers on the railway when the men went to war. Fast forward to the present day, and women are still fighting for equality.
Where did it start and what influenced the development of Scotland's railway industry? Find out in this brief interactive guide to key points in its history.
The war years transformed working life for women, called upon to fill the void left by men. Proving themselves more than capable in jobs formerly considered only suitable for men contributed to the fight for women's suffrage.
OpenLearn Scotland, is intended to be of interest not only to people living in Scotland, but to anyone wishing to know more about Scottish society and culture. Find out more here..
The Improvement Service and The Open University in Scotland are working together to offer all community councillors in Scotland the opportunity to learn new skills using free OU courses.