A Happy New Year to all

The Open University

The Open University has come a long way since Harold Wilson founded it in the 1960s and most of us probably have pretty outdated ideas about what it has to offer. Contact has been made recently between Weston U3A and the OU South West Office and we shall be able to display brochures and leaflets at Coffee Mornings in 2006.

There is a wide selection of undergraduate, postgraduate and short programmes now available. “Openings” are designed for students who may not have experience of Higher Education and come in a range of subjects from science and maths to arts and social sciences. They can take up to 20 weeks’ study and students have their own tutor with whom they communicate by telephone. These courses build skills that are later required for degree studies. The “Short Science” courses cover discrete scientific topics that can be studied as one-offs or as tasters before embarking on longer courses or degrees.

Both of these types of short course are FREE to anyone in receipt of certain benefits, but not automatically to pensioners - shame about that.

The OU website is www.open.ac.uk
MP

A very Happy Christmas to all members of Weston-super-Mare U3A

NEWSLETTER ERRATUM

The editor wishes to apologise for inadvertently omitting the following activity from the latest newsletter:

COME SINGING FOR PLEASURE, meeting weekly on Tuesday afternoons. Group leader Kathie Savage 627467.

Does it give you problems?

Our web site has been set up to be viewed at 1024 x 768 pixels.

It would be interesting to know at what resolution most members use when looking at the site. I would appreciate an e-mail sent to me at nodnurg@aol.com giving me this information. If you are not sure what resolution you are using you can find this by clicking on

Start - Settings - Control Panel - Display - Settings

The resolution can then be seen at the bottom left hand corner.

If a a result of this exercise we find that the majority of members are using a lower resolution than that set in our web site consideration will be given to changing it.

Tom Grundon