{"id":31036,"date":"2026-10-23T10:29:45","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T09:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/?p=31036"},"modified":"2026-10-23T11:03:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T10:03:38","slug":"the-open-university-proud-to-see-milton-keynes-shortlisted-for-uk-city-of-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/around-ou\/the-open-university-proud-to-see-milton-keynes-shortlisted-for-uk-city-of-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"The Open University proud to see Milton Keynes shortlisted for UK City of Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Open University is proud that Milton Keynes has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/blackpool-milton-keynes-sheffield-and-wrexham-shortlisted-for-uk-city-of-culture-2029\">shortlisted to be the next UK City of Culture<\/a>. The University, which has its campus in Milton Keynes, is a supporter of the City&#8217;s bid alongside MK City Council and local businesses and organisations.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the announcement of the next UK City of Culture shortlist, The Open University&#8217;s Vice-Chancellor, Professor Dave Phoenix, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The history of Milton Keynes and The Open University has been intertwined since we were created almost 60 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While we serve all four nations of the UK and are a university without walls, Milton Keynes is our home.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Milton Keynes economic and cultural impact is rapidly expanding not just at a regional level but across the UK and a successful City of Culture bid would unlock tremendous opportunities for skills growth in the arts and culture and wider industries.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are proud supporters of the city&#8217;s bid and will be lending our continued support behind the city for next stage of the contest.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Photo credit: Ethan Wilkinson on Unsplash<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Open University is proud that Milton Keynes has been shortlisted to be the next UK City of Culture. The University, which has its campus in Milton Keynes, is a supporter of the City&#8217;s bid alongside MK City Council and local businesses and organisations. Commenting on the announcement of the next UK City of Culture [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":31051,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1444,1525,1640],"class_list":["post-31036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-ou","tag-milton-keynes","tag-news-home","tag-ou-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31036","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\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31036"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31053,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31036\/revisions\/31053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}