The First Minister of Scotland, The Right Hon, Nicola Sturgeon MSP, interviewed Booker Prize-shortlisted author and playwright Ali Smith at the Edinburgh International Book Festival 2018, as one of a series of events supported by The Open University at the festival.
23rd August 2018
Fully funded places are on offer to prospective learners resident in Scotland for a wide range of Open University postgraduate modules. Apply by 7 September for modules starting in November 2018.
30th July 2018
Find out more about the latest news and events from The Open University in Scotland, with the July 2018 issue of Open Outlook.
26th July 2018
We're pleased to be supporting three Creative Writing Workshops at the Edinburgh International Book Festival 2018. Aspiring writers have the chance to win complementary tickets to the workshops by entering our competition.
24th July 2018
A large majority of organisations surveyed in Scotland (86%) struggled to find workers with the right skills over the past 12 months, according to a new OU-commissioned report.
13th July 2018
The Open University has given pupils from Denny High, near Falkirk, the control codes for two of the world’s most advanced telescopes.
4th July 2018
Claudio Marturano, studying for a Master of Business Administration, has become the first OU student to win a prestigious Royal Society of Edinburgh enterprise fellowship.
3rd July 2018
Laura McHarrie, a social worker with Dumfries and Galloway Council, has won an award for the highest performing graduate in the Open University’s social work programme in Scotland.
12th June 2018
An innovative scheme teaching primary teachers languages and how to teach those languages to pupils is being expanded across Scotland for the first time.
7th June 2018
A languages project for primary schools, and free online courses about law making in Scotland are shortlisted for the prestigious Herald Higher Education Awards.
5th June 2018
