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The Open University's Milton Keynes campus. In 2019/20, 99,834 students were from England, 14,903 were from Scotland, 6,668 from Wales, 3,667 from Northern Ireland and 4,900 from the European Union, with others elsewhere. 60% of undergraduates were female, with 53% of those taking postgraduate modules being male. [63]
The OU at Milton Keynes. In the south-east of Milton Keynes, The Open University is in Walton Hall, in Walton; BT Development & Training (management) is based at Kents Hill, next to the OU, after it moved from Bletchley Park in 1993; south of the OU is Walton Manor, home of MSD Animal Health (former Intervet, and previously a Hoechst laboratory).
Milton Keynes (/ k iː n z / ⓘ KEENZ) is a city [c] in Buckinghamshire, England, about 50 miles (80 km) north-west of London. [b] At the 2021 Census, the population of its urban area was 264,349. [7] The River Great Ouse forms the northern boundary of the urban area; a tributary, the River Ouzel, meanders through its linear parks and ...
For higher education, the Open University's headquarters are in Milton Keynes – though, as this is a distance education institution, the only students resident on campus are approximately 200 full-time postgraduates. A campus of the University of Bedfordshire located in Central Milton Keynes, provides conventional undergraduate courses.
Milton Keynes College is a general further education and training college, serving the City of Milton Keynes. It also serves the surrounding areas (northern Aylesbury Vale, south Northamptonshire, north west Bedfordshire and north east Oxfordshire). It also provides tertiary education to Foundation Degree level.
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. [5] The original project was part-funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. [6] OpenLearn is a member of the OpenCourseWare Consortium (OCWC). [7]
Gerald Gardiner, Baron Gardiner, former Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, completed his degree whilst serving as Chancellor of the Open University; Bill Henderson, member of the House of Keys (Isle of Man) David Heyes, Labour MP; Adam Ingram, Labour Minister of State, Northern Ireland Office; Andrea Jenkyns, Conservative MP [4]
[67] [68] A boom in investment in technology has led to tech and IT-related vacancies now making up 13% of all UK job vacancies. [69] In Eastern England, overall hiring has increased by nearly 14% in the tech sector, and 12% in North West England and South West England. [70]