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OU brings environmental research to the rooftops

29 April 2025

Work has commenced on The Open University’s first green roof research installation, thanks to a collaboration between scientists and a Milton Keynes-based Living Roof contractor. Living Roof Live Lab, located on top of the Stuart Hall office building at the OU’s Walton Hall campus, features a vista of rectangular beds – known as rigs – […]

Former soldier’s gratitude for life-changing scholarship

28 April 2025

Ex-soldier Daniel Bingley, from Wootton in Bedford, credits a degree scholarship for disabled veterans from The Open University for helping him turn his life around, after a career-ending injury put paid to the working life he had known. As a career soldier from a military family, Daniel fully expected to continue in the job until […]

Life-changing educational opportunity for disadvantaged students

14 April 2025

People from disadvantaged backgrounds have the chance to study for free at The Open University (OU), through an annual student scholarships programme now available for the eighth year running. Students for whom higher education once seemed out of reach are being given this opportunity thanks to donations to the Open Futures Fund, a bespoke programme […]

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Applications open for fresh ideas and business creators

10 April 2025

The Open University’s support for entrepreneurs lifts off this month with the 2025 launch of its fund awarding grants towards setting up a business, open to students and alumni. Called the Open Business Creators Fund the initiative offers grants of up to £1500 to support OU students and alumni as they start and progress on […]

Photo of the launch of the Minority Ethnic Leadership Programme. Photo: OU

Innovative programme aims to enable minority ethnic leaders to shine

7 April 2025

The Open University (OU) and the Henry Smith Charity have forged an exciting new partnership to help foster new business leaders of the future from Minority Ethnic backgrounds. The partnership is established with the OU’s Centre for Voluntary Sector Leadership (CVSL), one of the OU’s Business School’s centres of research excellence, which supports and initiates […]

Join the OU for its first Open Research Week

18 March 2025

The OU is set to host its first Open Research Week from 24th to 28th March. The week is an opportunity for anyone, anywhere, to learn about our ‘real world’ applications of our openly available data, outputs and citizen science platforms and to help others in the research community to do research better. Communicated through webinars, videos […]

OU celebrates neurodiversity week

18 March 2025

To mark neurodiversity week, 17th -23rd March, The Open University has created a hub of resources on its free online learning platform, OpenLearn, designed to educate and inspire neurodivergent learners, allies, educators, and employers. The OU has a long history of teaching neurodivergent learners, such as those with ADHD, dyslexia, dyscalculia, dysgraphia, autism, dyspraxia, Tourette’s syndrome, […]

Tech Mahindra Inks MoU with The Open University to Advance AI-Driven Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Skill Development

11 March 2025

Tech Mahindra (NSE: TECHM), a leading global provider of technology consulting and digital solutions to enterprises across industries, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with The Open University (OU), the UK’s largest university to drive innovation, skills development, and entrepreneurship. This strategic collaboration aims to bridge the gap between cutting-edge technology advancements and their […]

New Professor of Education, Policy and Practice

11 March 2025

In 2018, there were only 25 Black women professors in the UK, compared to 12,500 white men (WHEN, Women’s Higher Education Network). Today, that number has risen to 74, with the promotion of Dr Carol Azumah Dennis, SFHEA, to Professor of Education, Policy and Practice, within The Open University’s Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language […]

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Reducing reoffending rates: Open University awarded UK government contract to provide education in secure environments across England and Wales

10 March 2025

OU has been awarded a contract to continue delivering transformative HE education Education is a key aspect of rehabilitation to help end cycle of reoffending Evidence highlights the correlation between education and reducing reoffending The Open University (OU) will continue to deliver life-changing education to those serving in prisons, after successfully securing a new contract […]

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