May 2015 - Oxford Open Learning

Are We Creative Enough?

We need more people in the creative industries. Think the arts, computer programming, gaming, architecture and others.


People looking at the painting `The Night Watch'

Whatever happened to Awe and Wonder?

I love visiting museums and art galleries, but currently it is becoming increasingly difficult to enjoy them in an atmosphere of respect.


black and white image of Rupert Brooke

The Untimely Death of Rupert Brooke

Brooke was the ‘Golden Boy’ of the Georgian poets: WB Yeats famously referred to him as ‘the handsomest young man in England’


a photo of Tintern Abbey

Museums at Night or a Night at the Museum?

We all know a museum. Big or small they’re full of old stuff. You went there when you were a child, and you probably felt you had to keep quiet. You walked around, and you looked at some ‘artefacts’ and some displays. They were probably pretty interesting but you may not remember much about them? […]


Ed Miliband

The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party

The SNP’s almost total victory in Scotland should mean that more devolution of power will come their way, which will raise issues of legitimacy for any government formed in England.


David Cameron

Election 2015: What Happens to Education Now?

No one was expecting a quick or clear result from the election, so we were told. Yet in the end, that’s more or less what we’ve got. But with a government that has so easily managed to keep the keys to number 10, what should we now expect to happen in education? And what would […]


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