The OU, founded in 1969, is keen to promote the fact that more of its students are starting home learning courses during their teenage years or early 20s.
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When Oklahoma and Oklahoma State were placed into the South Division of the Big 12 with the old SWC schools, it caused scheduling of the OU-Nebraska to be nearly impossible.
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However, the Open University said if the focus is on the OU in Scotland, rather than the OU as a UK-wide institution, it is the top Scottish performer with a 94% approval rating.
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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.
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The Lao government has plans to build a series of dams along the Nam Ou River, which would have a profound impact on the area.
Every liquor bottle is also inspected daily, in case one not bearing the "OU, " or Orthodox Union certification mark, has somehow snuck under the radar.
There are only so many small boats that can go up the Mekong to see the Pak Ou caves, with their hundreds of Buddha figures, and so many vehicles that can drive the winding roads to the remote ethnic villages, where people who have never fully integrated into Lao society live unwired, in simple wooden houses on stilts as they have for centuries.
The trail, which starts near the small town of Nong Khiaw not far from the tourism hub of Luang Prabang, was really only discovered by tourists in 2009, though it has been used by locals for years as a direct route between the scattered settlements of the Nam Ou valley.
TwtRoulette was created by angel investor Shervin Pishevar, also the founder of mobile game developer SGN, and Stephen Ou, the precocious 15-year-old who was inspired by Google Instant to create iTunes Instant.
Texas better pull a Jerry McGuire and show OU the money.
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Starting from Nong Khiaw in the early morning, our guide Dhit sat quietly as we drifted around 10km downstream along the calm Nam Ou River in a narrow long-tail boat.
The lead singer of the London pop band Ou Est Le Swimming Pool has died during a music festival in Belgium, the Foreign Office has confirmed.
Mona Penn knew as she rushed to OU Medical Center in Oklahoma City late Monday that the storm had killed her daughter-in-law, Shannon Quick, and left her 8-year-old grandson injured and in surgery.
This is one escape that will keep the priceless memories coming - this is our message to you-ou-ou.
All of the pictures, all grandma's stuff, all my pictures, my letter jacket, my college degree from OU. There's nothing left.
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