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New TV documentary brings to life D-Day landings thanks to rare and previously unheard interviews

New TV documentary brings to life D-Day landings thanks to rare and previously unheard interviews

A new Open University/BBC co-production of a documentary TV series to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Normandy landings in northern France – D-Day: The Unheard Tapes – is about to begin. From 9pm on Sunday 2 June, BBC Two airs the three-part programme about the historic event on 6 June 1944 when 156,000 Allied […]

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Wildlife lovers’ favourite, Springwatch, returns with a new season

Wildlife lovers’ favourite, Springwatch, returns with a new season

Join us for the return of Springwatch, a series co-produced by the BBC and The Open University (OU) celebrating a season full of new life and hope. This year, the series returns to BBC Two from Monday 27th May for three weeks of live programmes. Hosts Chris Packham, Michaela Strachan, and lolo Williams return to […]

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Full-time carer Rebekah thought her dream of getting a degree had gone, until she found the OU’s carers scholarship

Full-time carer Rebekah thought her dream of getting a degree had gone, until she found the OU’s carers scholarship

When Rebekah Zammett became a carer to her eldest child at just 22, she thought she’d lost her chance to get a degree. Now, thanks to the OU carers scholarship, that dream is coming true. Rebekah, 37, from Banbury in Oxfordshire is now mid-way through a law degree with an ambition to become a barrister […]

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OU Pro-Vice Chancellor, Professor Kevin Shakesheff, elected Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences

The Academy of Medical Sciences has elected The Open University’s (OU) Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation, Professor Kevin Shakesheff, to its prestigious Fellowship. 58 new Fellows have been recognised for their remarkable contributions to advancing biomedical and health sciences, ground-breaking research discoveries and translating developments into benefits for patients and wider society. The Academy […]

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Success for OU Broadcast and Partnerships at the 2024 Learning on Screen Awards

Success for OU Broadcast and Partnerships at the 2024 Learning on Screen Awards

The OU’s Broadcast & Partnerships team is celebrating as one of two OU Connect projects shortlisted won Best Online Educational Resource at this year’s Learning on Screen Awards.    The awards take place annually and honour outstanding work in the field of education and television.   Award winner ‘The unexpected places we choose to lay […]

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OU student wins apprenticeship award

OU student wins apprenticeship award

Open University student Hannah Wright has won the Apprenticeship Determination of the Year award at the Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership Apprenticeship awards 2023/24. The annual awards recognise apprentices who have demonstrated outstanding work and commitment to their role. The Apprenticeship team at Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership said:  “Hannah has worked in […]

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Best-selling author Kate Mosse speaks movingly about being a carer at OU event

Best-selling author Kate Mosse speaks movingly about being a carer at OU event

Best-selling author and founder/director of the women’s prizes for fiction and non-fiction, Kate Mosse CBE, has shared her experiences of being a carer at an event at The Open University (OU) in Milton Keynes. Mosse, was talking in her capacity as an ambassador for The Open University’s carers’ scholarship, which offers unpaid carers the opportunity […]

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OU Chancellor’s Three Peaks Challenge

OU Chancellor’s Three Peaks Challenge

The Open University Chancellor, Baroness Martha Lane Fox, is taking on a momentous physically enduring test: tackling Britain’s Three Peaks Challenge in aid of four charities. And it’s an epic adventure for the 51-year old since she has endured 47 operations after breaking 28 bones in her body twenty years ago in a car crash […]

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New OU/BBC documentary ‘Better Off Dead?’ explores assisted dying in the UK

New OU/BBC documentary ‘Better Off Dead?’ explores assisted dying in the UK

*Content Advisory – this article contains references to assisted dying* Actress and disability rights campaigner Liz Carr presents this powerful documentary on legalising assisted dying in the UK. Airing on Tuesday 14th May at 9pm on BBC ONE and iPlayer, ‘Better Off Dead?’ follows Liz on a thought-provoking journey as she debates why we shouldn’t […]

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Professor Dame Nicola Dandridge to lead post-employment tribunal review

Professor Dame Nicola Dandridge has been appointed to lead an independent review at The Open University following the ruling of the Employment Tribunal in the case brought by Professor Jo Phoenix earlier this year. Formerly Chief Executive of the Office for Students, Universities UK and the Equality Challenge Unit, Professor Dame Dandridge’s independent review will […]

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