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Open University to be relaunched

(June 2005)

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DJ
DJGM
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Open University in image makeover

The Open University - often seen as the late-night home of bearded men in
tweed jackets - is to undergo an image makeover as part of a £2m campaign.


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The OU is to stop its late-night lectures on BBC next year and instead focus
on producing online content and distributing DVDs and CD-Roms to homes.


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The OU will concentrate on creating more "mainstream" science and arts
programmes for BBC One and BBC Two, rather than the specialist late night
programmes of old - to encourage a wider audience into higher education.


So, no more dull OU progs made in the 1970's, featuring bearded blokes writing formulas and equations on blackboards
while droning on and on on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on about formulas and equations!

I wonder if this means new OU programs could end up being broadcast in primetime?

Read the full article "Open University in image makeover" at BBC News Online . . .
ST
STEVE 03
I hope this doesn't mean we will be getting Open University programmes from 6am until 3pm on BBC2 on Saturday's like we did in the 1980's and early 1990's, that would be terrible if that happens.
So does this mean The Learning Zone is going to end next year?
If so BBC2 could run something like a 'catchup' schedule or show a night of films perhaps Very Happy
DA
Dan Founding member
DJGM posted:
I wonder if this means new OU programs could end up being broadcast in primetime?


Some already are.

I don't think there'll be much effect on the Learning Zone as most of its programmes aren't OU programmes.
SD
sda|
http://www.rp-networkservices.com/tvforum/uploads/ou.jpg

No beards to be seen on the OU these days of course, but majority of programmes are from the early to mid 90's
RU
russnet Founding member
With regards to the person above, it looks like the Atkins diet was actually around earlier than what I thought!
IS
Isonstine Founding member
Awww the bearded men were the best thing about the OU! It won't be fun anymore... Crying or Very sad
JA
james2001 Founding member
I can remember seeing bearded OU shows fromt he 70s & Early 80s int he early 90s. Not that I unserstood what these people were on about at all. They always had those boads with complicated equations and theories on that they stuck other peices of paper with other complicated stuff on, I'm suprised anyone understanded it.
EQ
Equidem
james2001 posted:
I can remember seeing bearded OU shows fromt he 70s & Early 80s int he early 90s. Not that I unserstood what these people were on about at all. They always had those boads with complicated equations and theories on that they stuck other peices of paper with other complicated stuff on, I'm suprised anyone understanded it.


"Understood"
MA
marksi
A friend of mine used to work at the Open University in Milton Keynes. She said that every day she passed a door marked "OU Wardrobe" but never dared to go in to see if it really was full of kipper ties and srobing tweed suits.

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