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The Open University is co-producing the 25th International Playwriting Competition, which is the only global competition for radio playwrights. 

The Open University Business School is partnering with Pinewood Studios to produce a free online course about the business of film making.

Researchers at The Open University and University College Dublin have found new evidence for the ongoing debate concerning Mars’ habitability.

The Open University is set to team up with The British Council to deliver academic programmes to displaced Syrian refugees.

In the latest of The Open University's ‘Serendipity of Science’ series, we take a closer look at Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming who, in 1928, discovered penicillin.

The Open University has once again performed outstandingly in the latest UK National Student Survey. 

The university received an overall satisfaction rating of 90%, making it one of only three Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) to consistently score 90% or above every year since 2007.

Music affects the brain in lots of amazing ways - particularly in relation to memory and, thus, studying. Which genre of music will best accompany your Open University studies?

The Open University is a winner at the 36th Annual Telly Awards.

The university won for its informative, animated shorts entitled '60-Second Adventures in Astronomy.' The series of 60-second animations examines different scientific concepts from the big bang to relativity, from black holes to dark matter.

An Open University Law School graduate has been awarded a Kennedy Scholarship to study at Harvard University in the USA.

Created in 1965, the Kennedy Memorial Trust scholarship provides full funding to a British citizen who is a graduate of a British university, enabling them to take up study at Harvard University.

The Open University’s Chancellor Martha Lane Fox has delivered this year’s prestigious Dimbleby lecture.

Speaking at the 39th annual Dimbleby Lecture from London’s Science Museum, Baroness Lane-Fox called for the UK to become a world leader in digital technology.