The Open University
The Open University has come a long way since Harold Wilson founded it in the 1960s and most of us probably have pretty outdated ideas about what it has to offer. Contact has been made recently between Weston U3A and the OU South West Office and we shall be able to display brochures and leaflets at Coffee Mornings in 2006.
There is a wide selection of undergraduate, postgraduate and short programmes now available. “Openings” are designed for students who may not have experience of Higher Education and come in a range of subjects from science and maths to arts and social sciences. They can take up to 20 weeks’ study and students have their own tutor with whom they communicate by telephone. These courses build skills that are later required for degree studies. The “Short Science” courses cover discrete scientific topics that can be studied as one-offs or as tasters before embarking on longer courses or degrees.
Both of these types of short course are FREE to anyone in receipt of certain benefits, but not automatically to pensioners - shame about that.
The OU website is www.open.ac.uk
MP
The Open University has come a long way since Harold Wilson founded it in the 1960s and most of us probably have pretty outdated ideas about what it has to offer. Contact has been made recently between Weston U3A and the OU South West Office and we shall be able to display brochures and leaflets at Coffee Mornings in 2006.
There is a wide selection of undergraduate, postgraduate and short programmes now available. “Openings” are designed for students who may not have experience of Higher Education and come in a range of subjects from science and maths to arts and social sciences. They can take up to 20 weeks’ study and students have their own tutor with whom they communicate by telephone. These courses build skills that are later required for degree studies. The “Short Science” courses cover discrete scientific topics that can be studied as one-offs or as tasters before embarking on longer courses or degrees.
Both of these types of short course are FREE to anyone in receipt of certain benefits, but not automatically to pensioners - shame about that.
The OU website is www.open.ac.uk
MP
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