OU News
News from The Open University
- Home
- Category: Around the OU
Category: Around the OU
Actor and former OU student’s role in bringing to life the D-Day landings
Actor and former Open University student Joshua Leese is reflecting on D-Day with a strong emotional appreciation of what the service personnel involved went through. Joshua, 31, who comes from Bedford, plays a central role in the BBC’s D-Day: The Unheard Tapes, a three-part Open University/BBC co-production documentary TV series to commemorate the 80th anniversary of […]
Read more about Actor and former OU student’s role in bringing to life the D-Day landings
A new season of Rare Earth begins on BBC Radio 4
Today, Friday 7 June, the OU/BBC co-produced radio series Rare Earth returns for a second season, presented by environmental journalist Tom Heap and physicist Helen Czerski. The new season begins on BBC Radio 4 at midday and listeners can continue to tune in weekly on Fridays at 12pm. The series will also be available on […]
Read more about A new season of Rare Earth begins on BBC Radio 4
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 […]
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 […]
Read more about Wildlife lovers’ favourite, Springwatch, returns with a new season
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Read more about Success for OU Broadcast and Partnerships at the 2024 Learning on Screen Awards
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 […]
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 […]
Read more about Best-selling author Kate Mosse speaks movingly about being a carer at OU event
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 […]
Page 9 of 79
Explore
Undergraduate
Postgraduate
Policy
-
Follow us on Social media
-
©2025.