Is there still time to save the Open University from slow strangulation? - Steven Rose, the Guardian

The report that the Open University plans to axe more than a third of its courses and slash its teaching staff makes grim reading for anyone who cares about the consequences for its original mission of making tertiary education open to all. Of course, the cuts must be set in the context of what has been happening to higher education as a whole, but there is clearly a danger that the OU’s unique contribution to public education over the half-century since it was created will be lost. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/23/open-university-cut-staff-courses-tertiary-education