The Open University (OU) was founded more than 40 years ago in the UK, with a mission to be open to people, places, methods and ideas. Today our expertise in open learning is helping to bring higher education within reach of many more people in Africa, strengthening their capacity to fight poverty and to build their economies.
We are working in two key areas:
Education: developing the skills and resources of people working in teaching, health, community support, business and government
Research: into health, agriculture and biotechnology, environmental management, heritage and culture and combating AIDS and malaria.
The cornerstone of the OU in Africa approach is to work with local partners: educators and higher education institutions, private commercial education providers, donor organisations and governments.
Our work is made possible by funding from our generous donors who include the Allan and Nesta Ferguson Charitable Trust, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Open University Development Office, Open University alumni and the UK government.
On this website you will find information about all our individual projects, and how you can support our work.
