The Open University is not a residential University, I.E, it isn't set up like most Universitys whereby there is a community of students.
"We promote educational opportunity and social justice by providing high-quality university education to all who wish to realise their ambitions and fulfil their potential.
Through academic research, pedagogic innovation and collaborative partnership we seek to be a world leader in the design, content and delivery of supported open learning."
Nearly all of their undergraduate courses have no grade requirements whatsoever. They believe that it's the qualitifaction you leave with, not what you enter with should count. The Open University also supports the disabled, support can be a range of things from special computer software to sitting exams in their own home, having a personal assistant at day or residential school, and advice on available funding support.
Opening courses are introductory level courses designed to help students learn about what it's like to learn at the OU.
The Open University has published teaching and learning resources free of charge to anyone with access to the internet, no matter where in the world they live.
The OU ranks high on the National Student Survey http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-11001891
"The OU Explained | About the OU | Open University." Distance Learning Courses and Adult Education - The Open University. Accessed on Web. 06 Mar. 2011. Available at http://www8.open.ac.uk/about/main/the-ou-explained
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