The Open University (OU) is a public research university and the largest university in the United Kingdom by number of students. The majority of the OU's undergraduate students are based in the United Kingdom and principally study off-campus;many of its courses can also be studied anywhere in the world. There are also a number of full-time postgraduate research students based on the 45 hectares university campus at Walton Hall,Milton Keynes,Buckinghamshire,where they use the staff facilities for research,as well as more than 1,000 members of academic and research staff and over 2,500 administrative,operational and support staff.
The Queen's University of Belfast,commonly known as Queen's University Belfast,is a public research university in Belfast,Northern Ireland,United Kingdom. The university received its charter in 1845 as "Queen's College,Belfast",and opened four years later.
The University of Hertfordshire (UH) is a public university in Hertfordshire,United Kingdom. The university is based largely in Hatfield,Hertfordshire. Its antecedent institution,Hatfield Technical College,was founded in 1948 and was identified as one of 25 Colleges of Technology in the United Kingdom in 1959. In 1992,Hatfield Polytechnic was granted university status by the British government and subsequently renamed University of Hertfordshire. It is one of the post-1992 universities.
The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology is a public research university located in the city of Melbourne in Victoria,Australia. Established in 1887 by Francis Ormond,the university is a founding member of the Australian Technology Network (ATN),and a member of Universities Australia (UA). RMIT is ranked 15th in the world for art and design subjects in the QS World University Rankings,and is in the top 130 universities globally.
The University of Wolverhampton is a public university located on four campuses across the West Midlands,Shropshire and Staffordshire in England. The roots of the university lie in the Wolverhampton Tradesmen's and Mechanics' Institute founded in 1827 and the 19th-century growth of the Wolverhampton Free Library (1870),which developed technical,scientific,commercial and general classes. This merged in 1969 with the Municipal School of Art,originally founded in 1851,to form the Wolverhampton Polytechnic.
The University of Gloucestershire is a public university based in Gloucestershire,England. It is located over three campuses,two in Cheltenham and one in Gloucester. In March 2021,the university purchased the former Debenhams store in Gloucester City Centre,with a new campus due to open there in 2023.
Cardiff Metropolitan University,formerly the University of Wales Institute,Cardiff and commonly referred to as Cardiff Met,is a university located in the city of Cardiff.
Sir Deian Rhys Hopkin is an academic and historian,former vice chancellor and former President of the National Library of Wales. From 2013 to 2020,he served as Chair of Wales Remembers 1914-1918 and was expert adviser to the First Minister of Wales for the Centenary of the First World War. Hopkin was from 2001 until 2009 vice-chancellor and chief executive of London South Bank University,England. From 2011 to 2015,he was president of the National Library of Wales. He is a historian,originally from Wales and a fluent Welsh speaker.
Sir Timothy Michael Martin O'Shea is a British computer scientist and academic. He was the Master of Birkbeck,University of London from 1998 to 2002 and subsequently Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Edinburgh from 2002 to 2018.
The University of Winchester is a public research university based in the city of Winchester,Hampshire,England. The university has origins tracing back to 1840 as a teacher training college,but was established in 2005.
St Martin's College was a British higher education college with campuses in Lancaster,Ambleside and Carlisle,as well as sites in Whitehaven,Barrow and London. It provided undergraduate and postgraduate courses in the arts,humanities,business studies,teacher training,health and social care. In 2006 the college was granted the power to award its own degrees. On 1 August 2007,the college merged with other institutions to form the University of Cumbria.
Edge Hill University is a campus-based public university in Ormskirk,Lancashire,England. The university,which originally opened in 1885 as Edge Hill College,was the first non-denominational teacher training college for women in England,before admitting its first male students in 1959. In 2005,Edge Hill was granted Taught Degree Awarding Powers by the Privy Council and became Edge Hill University on 18 May 2006.
Peter John Gibson Horrocks CBE is a broadcast executive and a former Vice-Chancellor of The Open University. He was educated at the independent King's College School in Wimbledon and at Christ's College,Cambridge. He was previously director of the BBC World Service Group.
OpenLearn is an educational website. It is the UK's Open University's contribution to the open educational resources (OER) project and the home of free,open learning from The Open University. The original project was part-funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. OpenLearn is a member of the OpenCourseWare Consortium (OCWC).
Robert Dennis Gibson is a British-born Australian academic and mathematician.
Mike Fitzgerald is a criminologist,former higher education manager and consultant. He was Vice-Chancellor of Thames Valley University in the 1990s.
Michael John Pentz was a physicist,activist in the peace movement,and an influential pioneer of teaching science to university students by distance education. Pentz was born in Cape Town,South Africa,and died in France.
FutureLearn is a British digital education platform founded in December 2012. The company was acquired by Global University Systems in December 2022 and previously jointly owned by The Open University and SEEK Ltd. It is a massive open online course (MOOC),microcredential and degree learning platform.
Sir David John Watson was a British academic and educationalist. He was Director of Brighton Polytechnic from 1990 to 1992 and Vice-Chancellor of its successor the University of Brighton from 1992 to 2005. In 2005 he was appointed Professor of Higher Education Management at the Institute of Education and was Course Director of the Institute's MBA in Higher Education Management. Between 2010 and 2015 he was Principal of Green Templeton College,Oxford and Professor of Higher Education at the University of Oxford.
Alexander (Alec) John Cameron is an Australian engineer and university administrator,currently serving as Vice-Chancellor and President of RMIT University.
