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    9th May 2013

    Mooting competition

    Mooting success

    OU law students have won two prestigious mooting awards: the ICLR (The Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England and Wales) National Mooting Tournament, and, the 2013 Welsh National Mooting competition. A moot is designed to resemble a case heard before a judge in court and was originally a teaching tool for apprentice barristers in the Inns of Court. The moot...

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    8th May 2013

    Richard Feynman

    The fantastic Mr Feynman

    A fascinating documentary, produced by the BBC and OU, focussing on one of the most iconic, influential and inspiring scientists of the 20th century will be screened at 9.30pm on Sunday 12 May on BBC2. Richard Feynman helped design the atomic bomb, solved the mystery of the Challenger Shuttle catastrophe and won a Nobel Prize. Now, 25 years after his death – in his...

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    7th May 2013

    Couple enjoying the Hay Festival

    Hay Festival 23 May - 2 June 2013

    Bill Clinton described Hay as 'the Woodstock of the mind'. The OU is delighted to be working in association with the Hay festival again this year with three events being held during the programme on Saturday 25th May: Jeremy Bowen talks to Tom Fletcher The Arab uprisings: the people want the fall of the regime The middle east correspondent analyses the state of the region...

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Gyles Brandreth and Chris Lima

Alumnus scoops prestigious business award

 Chris Lima, Managing Director of Simon Hegele Logistics, has won the Institute of Directors regional Chairman’s Award for Leadership in Corporate Responsibility....

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Astrogardening

The world’s first AstroGardening rover

Researchers at the OU’s Faculty of Science have designed the world’s first AstroGardening rover. The rover will make it possible to study plant life that could...

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Annotation by Thinkstock images

Imagine how useful if would be to write on web pages…

OU Annotate is a bespoke tool that allows you to make annotations on web pages. You can highlight text, scribble a comment in the margin, attach a sticker or bookmark a...

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