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For the love of learning – father and daughter make it a double act to degree success
Joanna McLenaghan walked quite literally in her father’s footsteps when she followed dad Ian across the stage to collect identical degrees recently at a ceremony staged by The Open University. The pair signed up for an OU MSc in Maths in the same year and there followed six years of “total rivalry” to see who […]
Employers missing out on hidden talent pool as a large skills gap remains
Data from The Open University and British Chambers of Commerce shows the vast majority of organisations (73%) continue to report skills gaps More than half (54%) of organisations don’t have specific skills initiatives in place for specific talent pools, including those from underrepresented groups Business expert and Chancellor of The Open University, Martha Lane Fox, […]
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Why the Bank of England’s interest rate hikes aren’t slowing inflation enough and what that means for mortgages
Alan Shipman is a senior lecturer in economics at The Open University and here he shares his view on the mechanisms employed to slow down inflation, what the fallout means across a wide spectrum of society and why the Bank of England appears as a convenient scapegoat. Consumer price inflation stuck at 8.7% in May, defying […]
Open University considers face to face offer alongside transformative move to city centre
The Open University is to prepare a business case for a world class university based in a sustainable green campus in Milton Keynes city centre. The plans support the city’s wider vison to develop one of the UK’s most vibrant city centres. The University’s governing Council has agreed to initiate work on the strategic and […]
The Open University celebrates 50th anniversary of its first graduation ceremony
The Open University (OU) is celebrating the anniversary of its first graduation ceremony which took place on 23 June, 50 years ago. In the summer of 1973, 600 graduates arrived in London’s Alexandra Palace to be awarded their degrees, an occasion that was broadcast live on BBC2. One such individual was Michael Shaw, who joined […]
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50 years on – Michael looks back on the OU’s “awe-inspiring” first graduation ceremony
In 1973, Michael Shaw and fellow pioneer students made history by crossing the stage at The Open University’s first graduation ceremony at Alexandra Palace. Fifty years since graduating, retired head teacher Michael shares how at 82 with an esteemed teaching career behind him, collecting his OU degree scroll is still one of his proudest moments. […]
A trio of images highlight BepiColombo’s third Mercury flyby
The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission has made its third of six gravity assist flybys at Mercury, snapping images of a newly named impact crater as well as tectonic and volcanic curiosities as it adjusts its trajectory for entering Mercury orbit in 2025. The closest approach took place at 19:34 UTC (21:34 CEST) on 19 June 2023, […]
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Mission accomplished! Scientist’s joy at being handpicked for European Space Agency role
An Open University scientist has been handpicked by the European Space Agency (ESA) and offered a Fellowship to continue her studies into how the surface of Mars is shaped by wind. Dr Elena Favaro is a postdoctoral research assistant at the OU who specialises in aeolian geomorphology – the process by which wind contributes to […]
‘I’ve made life-long friends through the OU’
After recently moving to the UK, Khudayja, 25, hadn’t expected that her BA (Honours) English Literature and Creative Writing degree at The Open University (OU) would introduce her to life-long friends and a huge community of fellow book lovers. “I moved to the UK from Pakistan with my family four years ago. My family are […]
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‘OU study has changed me,’ says globe-trotting adventurer
Presenter and content creator, Gwilym, 38, travels the world to share his experience of climate change and its impact on the environment and nature. After wanting to better understand the sights that he was seeing, Gwilym chose to study a BSc (Honours) Environmental Science with The Open University (OU). As he nears the end of […]
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