Full-time carer Rebekah thought her dream of getting a degree had gone, until she found the OU’s carers scholarship

22 May 2024

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 […]

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Best-selling author Kate Mosse speaks movingly about being a carer at OU event

15 May 2024

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 […]

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