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# Why enrol with The Open University?
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## The Open University allows you to take a range of courses at your own
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speed and in your own time. OU student Richard Want shares his education
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experiences.
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1:09PM GMT 03 Nov 2010
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You might think writing fiction would come easily to a PR man, but Richard
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Want is keen to produce the real McCoy. And he reckons the best place to learn
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is The Open University.
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![OU student Richard Want shares his education experiences][1]
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OU student Richard Want shares his education experiences
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"I enrolled because of the authoritative teaching and because the courses are
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so well structured," says Richard, 48, who runs a public relations business in
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Cumbria. "The Open University is long- established and has a lot of success
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stories. I trust the system and wanted to be challenged."
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After a short course, Start Writing Fiction, Richard is now taking an eight-
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month course in Creative Writing. It's every bit as professional as he
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expected, with a formal timetable and structure, and tutors who are helpful
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and highly committed.
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What he hadn't expected was the amount of interaction with other students. As
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well as two residential weekends, there are online forums where groups swap
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experiences and give mutual support.
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"It's about giving as much as taking," says Richard. "Peer reviewing is much
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encouraged, and it's fascinating to see how people lose their inhibitions and
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start to reveal more of their work. It makes the course more complete."
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Richard has even plucked up the courage to show his work to his family.
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## Related Articles
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* [Discover a degree of flexibility with The Open University][2]
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11 Nov 2010
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* [Win 150 off an Open University course][3]
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03 Nov 2010
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* [Study at The Open University][4]
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03 Nov 2010
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The 14 hours a week is quite feasible if you're organised, Richard has found,
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and the course offers help with time management.
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"Not only are you fully in control, but our tutor treats us as equals."
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Richard's creative writing course will take him almost a fifth of the way
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towards a humanities degree and he's already contemplating his next move. "One
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of the joys of The Open University is there's so much to explore and it's so
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flexible. You can choose your own path and change it as you progress."
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He's considering Start Listening to Music next. Then if his fiction doesn't
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sell he could repurpose his skills to write music reviews for the local press.
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With The Open University, the possibilities are endless.
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**[Enter The Open University competition here][5]**
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## [The Open University][11]
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flexibility-with-The-Open-University.html
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Open-University-course.html
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[4]: http://www3.open.ac.uk/study/
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[5]: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/a/8108142
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[13]: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sponsored/education/
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[14]: http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01753/in-association-
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