By Leanne Goodall Did that title feel familiar? Are you trying to choose your next module or pick a pathway to follow with the Open University? Some people know from the start and are certain of what they want to do but that doesn’t apply to everyone and it certainly didn’t to...
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Once an OU student, always an OU student…
Open University students together
By Clair Chaytors You’ve taken that dreaded exam or you’ve submitted that mind boggling EMA. You’ve packed up all your notes and books into a storage box and you’ve signed up for your next course. But, there’s a problem; the new university term starts in October and it’s only the beginning of...
40 Thoughts an OU student has between exam day and results day
By Leanne Goodall Do any of these sound familiar to you? I took my exam on 3rd June and have had all of these thoughts right up until no.35. The last 5 thoughts are taken from my thoughts after last year’s EMA and pretty much every single TMA that I’ve ever done....
OU Students: Top Tips for Understanding the Study Books
By Leanne Goodall We’ve all been there: staring at the books with no clue as to what the previous few pages mean. It’s perfectly normal, I’m certain of that now! There have been times when I’ve read the same part again and again but I still don’t understand much. Despite this, I’ve...
OU Students: The Long TMA Wait
By Leanne Goodall It’s practically the longest wait in the world. You know the one where you refresh and refresh that computer screen. The one where you log on to Student Home 200 more times than when you’re actually studying and the one where every new email makes you hold your breath,...
OU Module Review: A200 Exploring history: medieval to modern 1400-1900
Open University students reading over the study planner
By Leanne Goodall ‘The most challenging yet rewarding course I’ve ever done’ Wow, what a course. If you’ve read other module reviews for A200 then you’ll know that it’s the nuts and bolts of studying History at degree level. It aims to teach you all the skills that a historian needs, how...
Am I the sort of person who gets a degree?
“There’s only one place you’ll end up and that’s in a dead-end job or prison,” said the librarian over her horn-rimmed spectacles. Wow! Talk about a vote of confidence. That was our school librarian by the way, giving her measured assessment of my career prospects after I was caught stuffing security tags...
Opinion: “It’s time to end the War on Drugs”
It's time to end the War on Drugs
By Andrew Brown The war on drugs is a failure that has been lost and is now due for a radical re-think. Bold statement to open with you might think but that’s how I see it. Those who started and continue to push the “war” have always been at least a step...
Interview with Open University blogger James Newton
The glasses are down and off for a break from those Open University TMAs
This week it is an absolute pleasure to welcome over blogger, influencer, father, oh and Open University student James Newton for an interview. More of an informal chat I’d like to think but either way James was kind enough to agree to it and responded extremely quickly. Hope we didn’t eat into...
Sticking To the Open University Study Planner, Or Not.
Open University students reading over the study planner
By Leanne Goodall Do you stick to the study planner on your module website? I haven’t been looking at mine so much of late and it’s got me wondering why. Until recently, I’ve always followed the planner studiously. For anyone that hasn’t come across the planner or isn’t an Open University student,...
