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Funded digital-skills job training for over 19s
People with a strong interest in moving into a digital career have an opportunity to change their fortunes for the better. Two free Skills Bootcamps are being delivered by The Open University (OU) that will fast track those taking part into their first digital job or into a new digital role with their existing employer. […]
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National award celebrates more sustainable partnerships in the covid crisis
The OU has won a national award for its work adapting to the Covid crisis by ensuring it swiftly maintained degree validation and other related operations via remote engagement. The majority of Open University Validations Partnerships (OUVP) with 40 partners are historically conducted face to face. But when the pandemic restrictions took effect, rapid agility […]
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‘Generation Hustle’: The Open University discovers a new wave of Passion-preneurs
Whilst many say young people have been hugely affected by the pandemic, latest polling reveals a new wave of optimism when it comes to the study and the career choices of today’s school leavers. The Open University study has identified the next generation of ‘Passion-preneurs’ – students inspired to undertake a degree and pursue a […]
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New OU/BBC show allows armchair “travelling” through literature
Staycationing holidaymakers will have a chance to “travel” the globe in a new BBC and Open University (OU) co-production “Write Around the World with Richard E Grant” airing on TV this week. The three-part series, which airs on BBC Four from Tuesday, 3 August, at 9pm, sees thespian Grant charting the journeys of some well-loved […]
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More secrets revealed at the museum
Five-inch-tall little Tommy Tittlemouse is 111 years old and for 50 of those years he’s been on display and looked after by curators at the world-famous Victoria & Albert Museum. In the latest OU/BBC co-production and second series of Secrets of the Museum, we see the teddy bear undergoing a ‘condition check’ before being packed […]
OU ranked third in National Student Survey
The results of the National Student Survey (NSS) 2021, commissioned by the Office for Students (OfS) have been published, with The Open University (OU) ranking third amongst 174 participating degree-awarding universities. This is a significant improvement from 17th in 2019, when the university last met the threshold for publication of its results. The OU maintained […]
The Open University’s future trends predictor reveals list of most in-demand jobs anticipated for major growth over next five years
Business, sustainability and digital entrepreneurs have backed a new campaign from The Open University that highlights skills and jobs forecast to be of vital importance to the growth of the UK economy in the coming years. Centring around the nationwide skills gap in management & business and computing & IT and against a backdrop of […]
Impact of COVID-19 on weddings reinforces need for marriage law reforms
Research by Dr Stephanie Pywell, from The Open University and Professor Rebecca Probert from the University of Exeter into the impact of COVID-19 on weddings has reinforced the need for marriage law reforms. Complications thrown up after events were cancelled due to the various lockdowns resulted in hundreds finding it difficult to reconvene, the research […]
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UK scientists join NASA’s first steps back to the Moon – and onward to Mars
A team of scientists from The Open University (OU) and RAL Space are collaborating with ESA and NASA to investigate the occurrence and behaviour of water on the Moon. Led by the OU’s Dr. Simeon Barber, the UK team has developed a sophisticated analytical instrument known as the Exospheric Mass Spectrometer (EMS) under a contract […]
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Opera star Laura Wright backs the Disabled Veterans’ Scholarships Fund as application deadline looms
Applications for this year’s Disabled Veterans’ Scholarships Fund (DVSF) are due to close on July 9th and the DVSF’s new ambassador, mezzo-soprano Laura Wright, is calling for eligible veterans to apply before the deadline. Laura became one of the decade’s biggest selling artists after she won BBC Chorister of the Year in 2005. She is […]
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