If you go to sleep with the radio on, you are likely to be woken in the early hours of the morning by a Professor of Mathematics, or a lecture on history. The quite hum after closedown is broken by the Open University.
Since 1971, 25.000 people a year have equipped themselves with books and blank cassettes, and enrolled at this University of the air.
Open University students don't need any qualifications in order to start their studies. And they don't go to a campus either.
(Although they do have regular meetings with a tutor.)
Tuition takes place on radio and television, and by correspondence -which means that students have the benefit of some of the best teachers in the country.
The graduates include former taxi drivers, shop-assistants, telephonists, secrataries, housebound mothers and old age pensioners.
Some of them had failed all their exams at school -but found themselves capable of brillant work once they had started a course. All they needed was a second chance.
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