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Welcome to Earth and Environmental Sciences

Earth and Environmental Sciences at the Open University has an excellent reputation for both teaching and research. The Department made a major contribution to the CEPSAR submission in the 2008 RAE, in which 70% of the science was recognised as “world-leading” or “internationally excellent”. Our teaching was also graded “excellent” in the most recent Teaching Quality Assessment.
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Introduction

The Department was established in 1969 and the founding professor was the late Professor Ian Gass FRS. The Department comprises about 68 staff and 20 full-time PhD students. There is a large and very active undergraduate student society, Open University Geological Society (OUGS). They have >2500 members and run more than 150 field trips/events every year as well as an annual 2-day conference. About 4,500 students are studying Earth Science courses this year (equivalent to about 1,600 full-time undergraduates). All undergraduate students study at home by distance learning methods

 

Latest News

6th November 2009

The Ian Gass Bursary

This award (up to £750) is made annually. It's open to anyone who has studied with the Open University (you need to have got good grades in at least 3 Earth Science courses) and who wishes to pursue independent geological work but who doesn't ...

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