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Educational Reform
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The Open Universiity
The Open University was the combination of Wilson's enthusiasm for equal opportunities in education, modernisation and the'white heat of technology' by attempting to offer high-quality degree-level learning in arts and science to people who had never had the opportunity to attended campus university.
In March '63, a Labour Party study group proposed an experiment on radio and television to be called the 'University on the Air'. Following the election success in '64, Wilson appointed Jennie Lee to consider the project, and t was her commitment that saw it through.
In September '69, the Open University's headquarters were established in Milton Keynes and by the middle of the '70 there has been enough applications for the first students to begin their studies in January '71.
The university used radio and television in innovative forms of distance learning, and recruited largely part-time students with a totally different social profile from traditional students.
It attracted the mature, woman and the disadvantaged, and it helped raise the esteem of those who had previously regarded themselves as educational failures.
By '80, the Open University ad 70,000 students and was awarding more degrees than Oxford and Cambridge combined,