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We promote educational opportunity and social justice by providing high-quality university education to all who wish to realise their ambitions and fulfil their potential.
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Nearly all of our undergraduate courses have no formal entry requirements, either prior qualifications or experience.
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We believe that it is the qualifications with which our students leave, rather than those with which they enter, that count.
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We have an Access Centre dedicated to ensuring our disabled students are provided with whatever technical and practical support they need to study successfully. Support can mean anything from special computer software to sitting exams in their own home, having a personal assistant at day or residential school, and advice on available funding support.
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We have developed a range of ways to include people from under-represented groups in higher education. Working in partnership with locally-based organisations we are able to offer programmes that reach out to potential students in their communities. And we are also working to make sure that these students receive the support they need to succeed in their studies.
- Barbara Lindsey on 26 Sep 11
  
  Where do we see this approach in the U.S.? Why?
  
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As part of our mission we are making an increasing amount of Open University teaching and learning resources available free of charge to anyone with access to the internet, no matter where in the world they live.
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Is the OU a real university?
- Barbara Lindsey on 26 Sep 11
  
  How do they address this? What metrics do they use? How do they measure up against traditional metrics of program excellence?
  
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