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Podcast: The OU is for younger students too

Did you know that the largest growing cohort of students at The Open University is the under 25s?

Documentally chats to Liz Manning, Head of Younger Student Services at the OU, about the growth in numbers of younger students, how gifted school students are studying OU courses alongside their school curriculum and why there’s no need to dumb down content for the young.

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