| English students pay higher fees than those living in the rest of the United Kingdom | Student Affairs has changed the grade posting policy |
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| In 2013, the OU began a MOOC platform called , which is the UK's largest provider of free online courses | Assessment is by both continual assessment with, normally, between four and eight assignments during the year and, for most, a final examination or, on some modules, a major assignment |
This grade is calculated as the lower of the overall continuous assessment score OCAS and overall examination score OES.
3| In mid-2010, the university led the list of contributing universities in the number of downloads of its material from the educational resources site , with downloads of over 20 million | The Open University produced in collaboration with the , which is a large-scale automatically generated of research topics in the field of |
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| The majority of staff are part-time Associate Lecturers and, as of the 2009—10 academic year, almost 8,000 work for the OU | There are also 1,286 mostly full-time salaried academic employees central academics based at Walton Hall and Staff Tutors based in a variety of regional locations who are research active and responsible for the production and presentation of teaching materials, 1,931 who are academic-related and 1,902 support staff including secretaries and technicians |
| The OU won the Teaching Excellence and Digital Innovation categories in University Awards 2018 | In 2010 approximately 55% of those under 25 were also in full-time employment |
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| The modern OU grants degrees of Bachelor of Arts BA , Science BSc , Laws LLB and Engineering BEng ; the BA and BSc may be named following a specified syllabus or unnamed constructed of courses chosen by the student degrees | The majority of the OU's undergraduate students are based in the United Kingdom and principally study off-; many of its courses both undergraduate and can also be studied anywhere in the world |
Since 2019 the Open University has also offered a professional doctorate for healthcare workers.
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