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Carrie on being a student

Here's my 'meet and greet' post for Cybher blogging conference

Cybher logo

If I have any regular readers out there in cyber space you’ll know by now that I’m pretty much always on the lookout for opportunities. By opportunities I mean either things to volunteer...

Why I get to 'Carrie' on being an OU student...

I always thought that when I finished my degree that would be it – my goal accomplished and I could move on. Well that changed when I decided to go a step further and work towards a Masters and...

Can I afford to study or not to study, that is the question...

I always love and hate this time of year in equal measure. I love it because it’s psychologically a new start; new opportunities, new chances to improve on the you of last year and new ways of...

Society Matters

Stranger than fiction: it could only happen in Milton Keynes

Cartoon by Gary Edwards

A Milton Keynes teenager with a student bus pass was asked by the bus driver to pay for a ticket for the cardboard cut-out figure he was carrying.  When he boarded the...

Equality gap #5: A Tale of Two Britains

Cartoon shows man in smart suit telling child to hand over money to him

With chief executive pay booming and little sign of self-restraint or regulation, Dick Skellington highlights how the burden of austerity is falling on the weaker and more vulnerable.  Bonuses...

The ethics of St Valentine's Day

Cartoon by Gary Edwards

Dick Skellington looks at how to ensure your Valentine Day flowers are ethically sourced.  It is will soon be St Valentine's Day and the UK retail cut-flower industry,...

The UniCyclist

Why I hate skinny iced caramel macchiatos

Steven Primrose-Smith taking in the views in Graz

After the upliftingly optimistic, pre-Christmas message of my last blog post, I'm now aiming for maximum depression. Well, it is January after all. In two months' time I set off on my bike again. I...

Lucky, lucky you!

Steven Primrose-Smith and his bike

I was going to write about how happy I am that I've finally submitted my 20,000 word philosophy dissertation. But any form of gloating seems out of step with the general mood of Britain and Europe at...

Anyone want to meet up in Europe in 2012?

Steven Primrose-Smith on a bench with his bike

Sorry for the silence. For the last few weeks I've had my head in my philosophy dissertation. I've finally reached the 20,000 word count that I need. I'm pretty sure I've chosen the right words but,...

Blog of the week!

Left at the Telegraph Pole

Sally is only just starting out in the blogging world as well as being a "mum of three, working full time, doing an OU degree, and husband and I have taken on challenge of learning to live off our land. It is only just started, and still under production..."

Law Blog One

And if you're interested in law, you might like this comprehensive blog by, offering "a window into the overloaded mind of an English law graduate from the outside shouting in."


Blogroll

If you're already blogging, for work, rest or play, send us the link so we can take a look and add the best to our blogroll...

A BSc For Me

All I Can Do Is Try

American at Heart

All Things Considered

After Work

Arts Matters

Arts and Technologies

Athyfotographic

AUA @ The Open University

A Voice Released

Balancing work, study and writing

Blog Whatever

Carpe Open

Catherine’s OU Blog

Centre for Ageing and Biographical Studies at OU

Creative Writing Tutors

Creative Gibberish

DSE141 Discovering Psychology

DD101

Discovering Dhaka

Daft Mamma

Doing it the Open Way

DVS West's blog

Enjoying Spain

Earthglade

Engage

E-assessment For Learning

Firth of Suburbia

From Dogsbody to Doctorate

Floating Along

Foreign Perspectives

Freelance Unbound

From GCSE Maths, to Rocket Scientist...

Grace in your Face

Gynoid Times

HEAT

History of the OU

Isabella Black

Ian Short

It's Psychsomatic

Jason Tremain on Psychology

James Orotayo: One who flew back to the cuckoo's nest

Just One More Ten Pence Piece

Law in HSC

Law Blog One

Learning About Management

Left at the Telegraph Pole

Legal Verdict

Let's Get Started

Library News

Lucienne Boyce's blog

Marketing Talk

Mature Student Hanging In There

My Open University Life

My Open Experience

My Open Adventure

Mathematics => A Blog

MBA Study Journal - ona76

Magenta Writes

Meg Barker's Blog

Meteorites: A Blog from the Final Frontier

Michelle Amanda

My Mind Bursts

N’s OU

News and Notes

Old Girl at Uni

OU Know

OU Activists

OUSA Euro Fest

OUSA Blog Central

Open University etc

Open University etc

Open Learning & the Voluntary Sector

Open Research Online

Open All Hours

Out There And In Here

Peter's OU blog

Poetry After Ink

Psyc_social

Queen of Geek

Ramblings of a Singer

Random thoughts of a Non-Mad Scientist

Research Essentials

Research With Creativity

Rebecca's Research Blog

Self Study Masters

Steve Lissenden

Stecoli.com

Sunny Dunny's Blog

Steven Dunn's Blog

Simply Hayley

Science Adventures

Society and Information Research Group

Stop The World I Want To Get Off

Studio Vox

Studying Parent

Secular OU

To the Open University & Beyond

The Sceptical Economist

The Secret World of an Unknown Housewife

The On Again Off Again Progress of a Hopeless Student

The Open Dream

The Mill Hillbillies

The Ramblings of a Yorkshireman

The Volcanism Blog

The University Blog

The Study Magpie

The Register

Viv is unoriginal

Versifier

Yvonne's B830 blog

Willow Whispering

Writer's Blog

Young Applicants in Schools Scheme