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OU student achieves career dream and wins Inspire! Award

20 June 2017

A student from the OU in Wales has received recognition at the Inspire! Awards for his determination and resilience in pursuing his studies through distance learning. Shafiq Mohammed, from Cardiff, started studying with the OU in 2010 and is due to complete his BA (Hons) Humanities in summer 2017. His goal has always been to improve […]

Share your story in support of lifelong learning

20 June 2017

The Open University is calling on members of its community to demonstrate the value of flexible distance learning (lifelong learning) and the role it can play to help the country meet future economic challenges. Flexible learning enables people to reskill and upskill, whatever their background or personal circumstances, and this will continue to prove essential […]

OU/BBC Hospital: a harrowing second series

16 June 2017

Following critically acclaimed first series, earlier this year, the cameras return to Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust for the second series of Hospital. The second four-part series, the first episode of which is due to broadcast on BBC Two on Tuesday 20 June 2017, 21:00, provides an even deeper insight into the ever-increasing demands on the NHS with unique […]

Open University announces radical reinvention

13 June 2017

The Open University, approaching its 50th anniversary, is launching a radical overhaul to ensure its readiness for the next half century. The University is conducting a review of every aspect of its operations – from the student experience to its teaching and research. A major savings and reinvestment plan will recreate the University, making it digital […]

OU supports year-long BBC science and technology season

12 June 2017

The OU is supporting a year-long season of science and technology programmes that will bring science to life for millions. Launched under the banner Tomorrow’s World, the radio and TV programmes and online hub, will take science out of the lab and into peoples’ homes, addressing how science is changing peoples’ lives, reshaping the world, and […]

Antidote to crime dramas hits TV this week – The Met: Policing London

23 May 2017

Across London, twenty four hours a day, the Metropolitan (Met) Police is dealing with the demands and dilemmas of policing a city of eight and a half million people. Following on from the highly successful first series, a second series of The Met: Policing London, which begins on BBC One, 9pm on 24 May, lifts the […]

Series charts the “final countdown” in Crossrail journey

22 May 2017

More than 10,000 engineers and construction workers are racing to complete Crossrail, London’s new Underground and the biggest engineering project in Europe, in time for the first trains to start running. Over two years, the BBC has had exclusive access to this incredible construction project and, in partnership with The Open University, the series returns […]

Documentary shares uplifting stories of those with terminal illness

17 May 2017

A Time to Live, a BBC/OU co-production brings to the screen the remarkable and revealing stories of 12 people living with a terminal illness. The documentary explores the different ways the 12 people, aged from their 20s to their 60s, approach their impending death and the impact on those close to them. Through personal stories, […]

Becoming a “learning organisation” is crucial to apprenticeship success

11 May 2017

A new study from the OU has found that a staggering 45% of apprentices struggle to find time to study indicating that employers need to do more to embed learning within their businesses to ensure that apprentices have the support they need to succeed. The report In Focus: The Work-based Learning Dividend, authored by independent […]

OU celebrates ten years of life-changing learning partnership in Wales

11 May 2017

Widening access to education is what the OU is all about. In Wales, the OU is celebrating ten years of a partnership with Wales Trades Union Congress (TUC) Cymru, which has supported over 1,500 learners since its launch in 2007. The tenth anniversary of the partnership was celebrated with an event at the Senedd in Cardiff […]

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