The contact form for my tutor is not currently working to request an extension.
Thank you, Ola 😊.
I thought this was useful further advice about planning your retirement. It's an FT Weekend article, you can normally manage to access these free through university libraries. It's by Jason Butler, and called "Do you have a plan for your retirement money?"
https://www-ft-com.libezproxy.open.ac.uk/content/38b4e1ce-582f-4fee-b6f2-8127ecfd9d5d
Thanks Anita for your insights 😉
Peace and Love,
Ola
I totally agree with you Anita, and as a passionate vegetable gardener I absolutely love your garden. Plus as a half Greek; although you probably already know it, doxa comes from the Greek language and means glory. eg doxa to theo which is something Greeks say which means glory to god, not that I frequent church much.
Chris
Awww, thank you Shona 🥰.
Super blog, love this guy! and the blue tit comment.
Thanks. - I think I'll follow your example.
Elizabeth
Hullo Leighton
I am sorry but there is no way to get an extension for an EMA. In very difficult circumstances, you can get what's called a Discretionary Postponement. You will need to talk to Student Support Team about this - as it will only be allowed in very exceptional circumstances. Their number is available on your StudentHome page.
You can also put in a Special Circumstances form up to 4 days after submitting the EMA.
You can put in something for the EMA, and a Special Circs form, and that way you may get to pass the module at least. On many modules, if you have put something in, you will be allowed to rewrite and resubmit it (with a tutor's help), if it doesn't pass.
Good luck - and remember, Student Support Team have all these answers, they are there at the end of a phone.
Hello,
I needed to extend an extension by another week. I had illness, then a home move (and all that entails) in the lead up to Christmas. I sent my tutor an email for an extension, without realising the OU would actually be shut! So my tutor didn't see the email, and still hasn't. I did submit the assignment, but for all the effort made, it was incomplete! What might happen next? Might the tutor still say I could send another copy and it would be accepted?
Thanks in advance,
Sarah
I have autism and my grandma died which meant my entire family needed to go to Germany for a week to attend a funeral. My instructor Dr. Stobbart, refused to give an extension stating that if he did this for me then he would have to do this for everyone and it would be 'chaos'. He then said 2 other students had losses that month. In other words they were getting on okay so I should to.
This isn't right.
I came across this while looking for information on WhatsApp and it reminded me of the hundreds (feels like hundreds) of times I was told that there were too many applicants and therefore competition was high. At least you were given some excuses that you could challenge. Everything else is so familiar.
Hi Anita,
Wow - sounds like you've had quite an experience of a restrictive academic culture, which as you say seems to play by its own rules and doesn't allow space for addressing the real life concerns of wider society, especially those groups who are regularly ignored or misrepresented. Your feeling of fulfilment in teaching rather than trying to gain conventional academic recognition (which seems highly subjective and power driven anyway) seems to point to a more worthwhile use of your experience, training and interests anyway. I have heard many negative things about academic culture (mostly in the Guardian) and how academics are moving abroad where the culture seems more open. I do wonder as a member of at least one majority group - white British male - how I might be able to enable more diverse voices and approaches to academic thought (and ideas in general) to be heard. This may take me off-track from my MA studies though..!
Always interesting to read your thoughts - thanks for continuing to post.
Really interesting. A fascinating subject that I don't currently feel qualified to voice an opinion on but I am reading (or listening rather) to a few audible books on the subject. Nice one Anita.
Is it one of these ones, Matt?
Video: Modern Money: The Way a Sovereign Currency ‘Works’ – L. Randall Wray, Modern Money Network.
Video: Money in the Modern Economy: an Introduction © Bank of England.
Video: Money, Banking and the Federal Reserve – Joseph Salerno © Ludwig von Mises Institute 1996.
Thanks - this post resonated with me. The situation is worse on a global scale, where the discrimination exists against those who don't have the 'right' passport, skin colour, accent, etc. I can't tell you the number of times I've been turned down for ELT jobs because I am, apparently, not a 'native speaker', despite having the requisite qualifications and experience! I can only hope that awareness and education lead to decreasing levels of discrimination. We can't all be Chevening scholars or work for the UN, after all.
Thanks Anita
I have made a little headway but now that probate is complete we have been able to sell my father in laws house and it’s beginning to look like that in that it’s no longer a home but just a house
I found myself struggling to drive from the recycling centre having dropped off things that we found in cupboards , my eyes welled up and I felt awful over some sheets and duvets
I wish there was still a transitional fee available so I could start my degree again a maybe if I had that to concentrate on I wouldn’t have these tearful moments