The Open University

The Open UniversityThis historical perspective on The Open University, founded in 1969, frames its ethos (to be open to people, places, methods and ideas) within the traditions of correspondence courses, commercial television, adult education, the post war social democratic settlement and the Cold War. A critical assessment of its engagement with teaching, assessment and support for adult learners offers an understanding as to how it came to dominate the market for part

which since 9/11

and its role as a driver of economic growth

can be used in higher education courses to support the study of cultural policy

A critical survey of Leonora Carrington’s legacies in contemporary creative practice

Mapping theoretical and empirical terrains

An in-depth look into how the news media frame referendum campaigns

Lyle Rexer argues that by concentrating on just a few carefully chosen works it is possible to understand the history

informational

In the mid-1980s

He concludes that the libellistes’ primary importance lies in their contribution to factional politics and in the public disquiet aroused by desperate and heavy-handed attempts to kidnap or silence them

‘Responsible Citizens’ reveals how rising emphasis on the individual has gone hand in hand with an increase in subtle authoritarianism – particularly within public services – such that a kind of ‘governance through responsibility’ is today being enforced upon the population

A compilation of writings by this important Irish political activist