News

Laura McHarrie, a social worker with Dumfries and Galloway Council, has won an award for the highest performing graduate in the Open University’s social work programme in Scotland. 

An innovative scheme teaching primary teachers languages and how to teach those languages to pupils is being expanded across Scotland for the first time.

A  languages project for primary schools, and free online courses about law making in Scotland are shortlisted for the prestigious Herald Higher Education Awards.

The winner of the 2018 Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) Helen Dowie Award for Lifelong Learning is Lisa McGuinness from HMRC.  The award is sponsored by The Open University in Scotland and will be presented by the Rt Hon Nicola Sturgeon, First Minister of Scotland.

The rarely-heard music of a fugitive 16th century Scottish priest will be performed at a special concert in Glasgow, based on research by Dr Elaine Moohan of The Open University.

Scotland’s national sports scholarship programme has opened the application process for its 2018/19 intake of individual scholar athletes.

Find out more about the latest news and events from The Open University in Scotland, with the March 2018 issue of Open Outlook

The OU in Scotland is delighted to be supporting and participating in DataFest18, a festival of data innovation run by The Data Lab.

The Open University will offer Graduate Apprenticeships (GAs) in Software Development and Cyber Security, starting in October 2018. 

Today the Scottish TUC and The Open University in Scotland celebrate 10 years of partnership.