Open University

American  

Trademark.

1. a largely self-instructional university, founded in England in 1969, offering independent education through such means as television, computers, and mailed course materials.

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Open University British  

noun

1. (in Britain) a university founded in 1969 for mature students studying by television and radio lectures, correspondence courses, local counselling, and summer schools

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Example Sentences

She is now completing an Open University course, her third attempt at sustaining study in higher education, and has had support in finding a suitable long term home.

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Footage from another location close to the Open University of Tanzania shows a motionless body on the ground with an open head wound.

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Prof Kevin McConway, emeritus professor of applied statistics at the Open University, said while the study shows a link between walking and better heart health, it doesn't prove that walking directly causes the improvement.

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"This was a great day for SpaceX, executing its full mission for the first time and deploying some test dummy satellites along the route," says Dr Simeon Barber, a planetary scientist at the Open University.

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The 90 year old was the oldest of more than 300 graduates at the Open University's ceremony in Belfast on Tuesday.

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