OU validation partner, New Model Institute for Technology and Engineering (NMITE), has been granted new powers to award degrees going forward.<\/p>\n
Open University Validation Partnerships (OUVP) was established in 1992 to enable The Open University (OU) to validate programmes for institutions that do not have their own degree awarding powers or\u00a0that want to offer OU-validated awards in addition to their own.\u00a0In the coming weeks, the OU will be celebrating its 200,000th student receiving a validated award.<\/p>\n
NMITE partnership with the OU began in January 2021, and has added great value to its progress by allowing focus on developing and delivering its new model of engineering education. NMITE describes the OU as \u2018the perfect partner\u2019 and one with which they may want to collaborate further in the future.<\/p>\n
James Newby, President and CEO of NMITE, describes this milestone as a hugely significant step change in NMITE\u2019s accelerated journey of innovation and says:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThe important element for us, and our students, is that we have proved ourselves in terms of academic quality and are delighted that our practices have been considered academically robust. We see this as an endorsement of our new model and our academic pedagogy. Students choose us because of our size and innovative approach, not despite it.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Viren Patel, Director of Employers & Partnerships, The Open University, commented:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThe OU is delighted that NMITE has achieved this significant milestone. Our core mission is to embrace inclusivity by being open to individuals, locations, approaches, and concepts and this is further amplified through validated collaborations with other education providers.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Viren added: <\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThe OU is dedicated to extending educational opportunities to communities that might not have otherwise had the chance to experience such an innovative and transformative learning approach and our partnership with NMITE\u00a0exemplifies\u00a0this.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n James also highlights NMITE\u2019s civic role, pointing out that Herefordshire was, before NMITE, one of only a handful of counties in the UK with no university. So, albeit currently on a small scale with developing credentials, it acts as a civic institution, playing a leading role in its local area by supporting community projects, focusing on providing opportunities for local young people and working with businesses to provide the training needed to meet the skills shortages faced by employers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" OU validation partner, New Model Institute for Technology and Engineering (NMITE), has been granted new powers to award degrees going forward. Open University Validation Partnerships (OUVP) was established in 1992 to enable The Open University (OU) to validate programmes for institutions that do not have their own degree awarding powers or\u00a0that want to offer OU-validated […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":18984,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1525,1640],"class_list":["post-23981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-university-news","tag-news-home","tag-ou-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}