Open University

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.

Open University

noun

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

Example Sentences

“If we discover life so far away from the Sun, it would imply a separate origin of life to the earth,” says Mark Fox-Powell, a planetary microbiologist at the Open University.

From BBC

This type of space walk took a “very different approach” to previous walks from, for example, the International Space Station, according to Dr Simeon Barber, research scientist at the Open University.

From BBC

But this shouldn't be brushed off as a vanity project, according to Dr Simeon Barber, a space scientist at the Open University, who develops scientific instruments on spacecrafts, almost entirely for government-funded projects.

From BBC

She will finish her fourth degree, her third with The Open University, when she is in her nineties.

From BBC

"Webb has given us an opportunity to figure out exactly which molecules we're seeing and put some limits on the abundances," said Joanna Barstow, a co-author from the Open University in the U.K.

From Science Daily