A senior years gap year
Nearly 70, his mortgage paid and his children settled, John Kirkaldy realises it’s not too late to indulge in a globetrotting adventure
Nearly 70, his mortgage paid and his children settled, John Kirkaldy realises it’s not too late to indulge in a globetrotting adventure
In the 1980s, the Open University wanted to improve students' learning from television. Viewing sessions with tons of exercises based on the video were arranged nationally and I was put in charge of...
With top-up fees about to drive up the price of a degree, the Open University is becoming the cost-conscious school-leaver's first port of call, writes John Kirkaldy The traditional image of the Open...
John Kirkaldy explains why the OU reaches out to inmates It was 3am and the man at the party was very drunk. "When," he demanded belligerently, "is the Open University going to give up giving degrees...
There aren't many places where all of human life debates the whereabouts of the corkscrew - that's the beauty of summer school, says John Kirkaldy. It was without doubt the most bizarre encounter of...