“A poor background shouldn’t mean limited opportunities,” says Lucy Price, who credits her challenging childhood and strong family values as the inspiration she needed to begin…
Our students work incredibly hard, committing to their studies while juggling a combination of life, illness, disability, work and family, and they somehow find time to…
Fiona Hirons began studying with the OU when she fell ill with Chronic fatigue syndrome/ME in 2002. After becoming largely bed-bound and being forced to give…
Teaching had always been Emma’s dream but when her teachers at school flagged that she might be dyslexic she feared her ambition was out of reach.…
Bradley Neal always had an interest in the natural world and a concern with what was happening to the planet so he decided he was going…
In 2003, Cindy Vanstone’s world was turned upside down. Her son was diagnosed with hydrocephalus and needed care around the clock, causing Cindy to give up…
At the age of 14, Gary Steel left school to care for his mum. His education had been severely impacted by his caring responsibilities and despite…
As Justine Wilkes-Kendall crossed the stage at the Barbican degree ceremony, she was proudly proving wrong the words of her social worker many years before who…
As an unmarried single mother in the 1970s, Elizabeth Tye found it difficult to make her dreams of university come true. After two attempts of studying…
Twenty-two years ago, Rebecca Bungay, 40, started her journey to higher education like most students, but found the road well-travelled was not for her and left…
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