Welcome to the Faculty

Whether you are looking for a first qualification or are already on your chosen path and would like to go further, or you’re an employer looking for a different way to develop your staff, we can help you make that transformation.

Organised as three schools, the Faculty works across a range of disciplines including education, childhood and youth, health and social care, youth work, social work, languages and applied linguistics, nursing, and sport and fitness. We have an innovative approach to teaching and learning, develop collaborative partnerships with employers and other institutions, and engage in cutting edge, action oriented and internationally recognised research.

Schools

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Our aspiration is to deliver the Open University’s social mission and transform society through life changing learning. Being at the forefront of innovation underpinned by excellent research and cutting edge pedagogy, we are one of the UK’s largest and most impactful providers of higher education in wellbeing, education and language studies. We use this expertise in our work with students, employers and collaborative partners in the UK and across the world to change lives.
Fary Cachelin, WELS Executive Dean

I’d like to be a teacher one day but I also felt an OU course would help me build knowledge that I could apply to my current role. My degree has helped me to understand the children I work with better, and helped me to understand Teaching and Learning as a whole.
Read more Emma Morris, Foundation Degree in Primary Teaching and Learning