It has been two years since the demolition of the Calais ‘Jungle’ camp. Today, Help Refugees has co-published a report with Refugee Rights Europe in order to highlight the human rights situation which has been unfolding in Northern France
Research in Finland suggests that the time demands, insecurity & isolation of cleaning work may make the dream of integration harder for new arrivals to achieve. Dr Maiju Strömmer in the Faculty of Social Sciences at University of Jyväskylä, Finland, discusses
As the President of the United States confirms plans to cut foreign aid to Guatemala, Honduras & El Salvador because of the looming 'migrant caravan', Dr Shonil Bhagwat, Lecturer in Geography at the OU, reflects on the environmental impact of a ‘Trump Wall’
The BepiColombo spacecraft blasted off into space, bound for Mercury in the early hours of Saturday 20 October 2018 from French Guyana to travel 9 billion km to reach Mercury in 2025.
Take the dragons and the zombies away from the television adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s epic A Song of Ice and Fire novels and you are left with the seemingly authentic portrayal of a pseudo-medieval world
Is higher education a fix for the refugee crisis? This question is explored through the voices and stories of Syrian youth in Turkey in the following blog, written by Dr MelisCin from Lancaster University & ProfessorNecmettinDoğan from Istanbul Commerce University
The European Space Agency (ESA) will launch its BepiColombo mission to the planet Mercury from its spaceport near the equator in Kourou, French Guyana, on October 20.
On Monday, we highlighted the start of National Hate Crime Awareness Week. Today, Dr Fidele Mutwarasibo, Visiting Research Fellow at The Open University, reports on the OU's Harmonies4Harmony Music Festival held on its Milton Keynes campus
Trinidadian author Samuel Selvon’s 1956 novel – The Lonely Londoners –depicts the lives of immigrant characters of the ‘Windrush Generation’, encouraged to migrate to the UK to help national reconstruction after WWII. Find out more in our free OpenLearn course
There are thousands of educational resources available online targeted at refugees & asylum seekers, yet very little information about whether they are fit for purpose. Gabi Witthaus writes today about her involvement in the Refugees' Educational Resources Project (RefER)
The Open University (OU) has launched a pioneering Centre for Protecting Women Online, made possible by a substantial £7.7 million grant from Research England.