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  • Goody bag: Thinkstock

    Share your advice to potential OU students for chance to win £50 module voucher and a goody bag

    30/04/2012 - 10:52

    Platform's offering you the chance to win a £50 OU course voucher plus an OU goody bag - and all you have to do is share your advice to potential OU students. What would you say to someone who was thinking of studying with the OU to help them make their decision? Share your advice in the comments section below this competition (to comment on Platform you'll need to...

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  • Guardian International Development Journalism Competition open to students *NOW CLOSED*

    22/03/2012 - 17:38

    The legacy of HIV, the contraception conundrum, malnutrition and the role of health workers in reducing child mortality are just some of the many issues that affect the developing world, yet are ones that aren’t given enough publicity. The Guardian International Development Journalism Competition aims to put these issues back on the news agenda, by encouraging enthusiastic broad-minded...

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  • Easter eggs

    Join the egg hunt for chance to win £250 in OU module vouchers *NOW CLOSED*

    22/03/2012 - 12:22

    Platform’s inviting you to join an egg hunt with the chance of winning £250 in OU module vouchers. There are eight eggs hidden across Platform and each of them boasts a letter. Find the eight eggs, rearrange them to spell a word and then send an email to platform-competitions@open.ac.uk by no later than Friday 27 April 2012. Please make the subject of your...

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    Universities Week launches competition to be an Olympic Stadium commentator

    19/03/2012 - 13:01

    Fancy yourself as an Olympic Stadium commentator? Then here's your chance...   In an exclusive competition for students only, Universities Week is offering three lucky winners the chance to be a commentor at the BUCS Visa Outdoor Athletics Championships, a London 2012 test event as part of the London Prepares Series. Flex your sports reporting skills and simply...

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  • One of the cottages4you holiday cottages, ref JDV
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    Win £250 off a cottage holiday with cottages4you *NOW CLOSED*

    14/03/2012 - 14:48

    With holiday season fast approaching, Platform has joined forces with cottages4you to offer £250 off a cottage holiday. The cottages4you site offers a huge portfolio of self catering cottages, villas and gites across the UK, Ireland, France and Italy. Members of the OU community also benefit from 10 per cent off holidays with cottages4you but for a chance to win...

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  • OU gift vouchers

    Win £100 in OU course vouchers *now closed*

    05/03/2012 - 15:43

    Platform’s giving you the chance to win £100 in OU course vouchers…and all you need to do to enter the competition is share your OU story in just one sentence. As part of its work to promote The Open University the university's Communications team collects stories about its student and alumni community to help celebrate individual successes and...

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  • Guess the photograph

    Enter OUSA's 'identify the object in the photograph' competition *now closed*

    28/02/2012 - 09:58

    Do you know what it is yet? Can you identify the object in this photograph, taken from a very peculiar angle? There are 20 similar images waiting for you to ponder over if you enter the competition, which is being organised to raise money for the Open University Student Association (OUSA) charity, OUSET. Photographer Joy Clark volunteered her services and photographs for...

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  • Share your goals for 2012 for chance to win psychology book *now closed*

    11/01/2012 - 16:42

    For your chance to win a copy of OU MBA graduate Bridget Grenville-Cleave’s new book, Positive Psychology, A Practical Guide, just tell us what goal you have set yourself in 2012. Bridget has just published her third book which is the scientific study of the positive aspects of human life, such as happiness, confidence and achievement; it focuses on understanding and promoting what makes...

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  • Man at bottom of stairs leading to a doorway to the world

    Hunting for the UK’s most talented undergraduates...

    05/01/2012 - 16:42

    Fancy being named 'best undergraduate' and proving you're amongst the best and most employable students in the country? There are 12 awards up for grabs to identify the top undergraduates in IT and Computer Science, Management, Law, Arts and Humanities, Business and Finance, Engineering, Social Sciences, Construction, Engineering and Design, Low Carbon, Accountancy and...

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  • Disgo Tablet 6000 Touch Screen Tablet

    Your chance to win an Android Tablet *NOW CLOSED*

    03/01/2012 - 16:58

    Thanks to internet bookseller Eddington Hook, Platform is offering you the chance to start 2012 on a high note with an Android Tablet. Eddington Hook is a specialist mail order and internet bookseller which has been supplying set books to Open University students since the OU set books scheme started in 1971. In 2011 it relaunched its website to offer students more...

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