Open University | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 02/10/2019

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_University


00:03:16 1 History
00:05:35 2 Organisation and administration
00:05:45 2.1 Staff
00:06:45 2.1.1 Credit union
00:07:24 2.2 Academic divisions
00:07:33 2.2.1 Faculties
00:08:02 2.2.2 Business school
00:09:20 2.3 Singapore Institute of Management Open University Centre
00:10:07 3 Academic profile
00:10:17 3.1 Teaching methods
00:14:42 3.2 Assessment methods
00:16:11 3.3 Qualifications
00:16:20 3.3.1 Undergraduate
00:18:59 3.3.1.1 Degrees
00:20:12 3.3.1.2 Other qualifications
00:20:59 3.3.2 Postgraduate
00:22:18 3.4 Degree ceremonies
00:24:20 4 Research
00:26:41 5 Students
00:26:59 5.1 Demographics
00:29:27 5.2 Courses
00:30:59 5.3 Fees and financial assistance
00:32:17 5.4 Qualifications awarded
00:33:27 5.5 Open University Students Association
00:34:10 6 Notable current and former academics
00:36:01 7 Notable alumni, graduates and honorees
00:38:20 8 In fiction
00:40:01 9 Partner institutions
00:41:55 10 See also



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The Open University (OU) is a public research university, and the biggest university in the UK for undergraduate education. The majority of the OU's undergraduate students are based in the United Kingdom and principally study off-campus; many of its courses (both undergraduate and postgraduate) can also be studied anywhere in the world. There are also a number of full-time postgraduate research students based on the 48-hectare university campus where they use the OU facilities for research, as well as more than 1,000 members of academic and research staff and over 2,500 administrative, operational and support staff.The OU was established in 1969 and used the original television studios and editing facilities at Alexandra Palace, in north London, which had been recently vacated by the BBC. The first students enrolled in January 1971. The university administration is based at Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, in Buckinghamshire, but has administration centres in other parts of the United Kingdom. It also has a presence in other European countries. The university awards undergraduate and postgraduate degrees, as well as non-degree qualifications such as diplomas and certificates or continuing education units.
With more than 174,000 students enrolled, including around 31% of new undergraduates aged under 25 and more than 7,400 overseas students, it is the largest academic institution in the United Kingdom (and one of the largest in Europe) by student number, and qualifies as one of the world's largest universities. Since it was founded, more than 2 million students have studied its courses. It was rated top university in England and Wales for student satisfaction in the 2005, 2006 and 2012 United Kingdom government national student satisfaction survey, and second in the 2007 survey. Out of 132 universities and colleges, the OU was ranked 43rd (second quartile) in the Times Higher Education Table of Excellence in 2008, between the University of Reading and University of the Arts London; it was rated highly in Design, Art History, English, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Computer Science, Development Studies, Social Policy and Social Work and Sociology. It was ranked 36th in the country and 498th in the world by the Center for World University Rankings in 2018.The Open University is one of only three United Kingdom higher education institutions to gain accreditation in the United States of America by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, an institutional accrediting agency, recognized by the United States Secretary of Education and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation.The BSc (Honours) Computing and IT course is accredited by BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT and quality assured by the European Quality Assurance Network for Informatics Education (EQAN ...