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19/03/2010 - 12:30
GB badminton player still finds time for OU study
Jillie Cooper, 21, is training with the Great Britain Badminton Squad with high hopes of competing in the Olympics in London 2012. She’s also an OU student... How did you get a place in the GB badminton squad? The GB badminton squad was set up in 2007 with different levels of entry. There is the podium group, international player and talent pool. Currently I am...
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04/03/2010 - 13:10
An interview with Aleks Krotoski, the face of The Virtual Revolution
Dr Aleks Krotoski puts the glamour into technology. She’s an academic, a journalist and the presenter of the BBC/Open University co-production of The Virtual Revolution. She takes time out of her hectic schedule to chat via Skype to Platform's Robyn Slingsby… Talking about her most prized possession, Aleks Krotoski’s iPhone shoots out of her hands and...
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19/01/2010 - 11:57
On police business
Frank Whiteley, Chief Constable of Hertfordshire, has managed responses to the Buncefield explosion, mass floodings and a nationwide fuel crisis. So why did he feel the need to study for an MBA? Open University Business School MBA graduate Frank Whiteley (pictured) believes his role as Chief Constable of Hertfordshire Police is little different from that of a chief...
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20th December 2012
Stargazing LIVE new series
Stargazing LIVE, the OU /BBC co-production returns for a third series in January. OU honorary graduate Professor Brian Cox and Dara O’Briain do some more stargazing from the control room at Jodrell Bank. Starting on Tuesday 08 January at 8pm on BBC2, they will be taking a closer look at Mars, investigating the Big Bang and building a working model of Herschel...
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20th December 2012
Open University in partnership with the British Council in Sub Saharan Africa
The Open University has begun a partnership-building project with the British Council to develop English language teaching (ELT) initiatives in Sub Saharan Africa. The OU has a wide range of ELT products and processes which have been developed in response to particular needs and particular contexts, said Dr Jim Donohue, Head of Open ELT in the OU's faculty of Education...
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20th December 2012
The Rest is Noise: A major festival of events celebrating 20th century classical music
We are pleased to announce the OU’s partnership with London’s Southbank Centre and the BBC for a year long festival of events celebrating 20th century classical music. “The Rest Is Noise” festival is one of The Southbank's most ambitious classical music undertakings to date, a cultural and musical history of the 20th century told through 250 events, concerts, films,...
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New Student Charter website now live
The Student Charter, which has been developed jointly by University staff and the OU Students Association, was launched by the Vice Chancellor on 23 April 2013, the 44th...
iTunes U: explaining the maths around you
There's a wealth of freely available OU maths content out there. From running a railway to getting your bearings in the hills, explore the variety of maths on the OU's iTunes U service,...
‘Feedback on feedback’ makes language learning more successful
An award winning article by two OU academics presents a method which encourages foreign language students to engage in a constructive dialogue with their tutors. The method looks at students’...
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