Earlier today, the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) issued advice to UK organisations warning of a worldwide critical security issue (ncsc.gov.uk/news/critical-security-issue-affecting-php). Upon receiving the alert, The Open University (the OU) has taken the preventative measure to take several of our learning systems offline to safeguard students and staff from this identified threat. Learning systems include all module websites and online tutorials. Unfortunately, this means staff and students are not currently able to access our learning systems and any tutorials that were due to take place this evening (Wednesday 21 October 2026) will be rescheduled. We apologise for the inconvenience this has caused but we must act decisively in these situations to protect students and staff and OU systems. Like other organisations, we must wait for third-party security fixes to be put in place before we can restore our learning systems. Staff will be working throughout the night to try and restore our learning systems and we will update further at 8am (Thursday 22 October 2026).

I'm pretty disheartened with the way my life has been going so l want to hear success stories from people who were in the worst of situations and managed to make progress in life.

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I completed MST124 last year and have just started MST224. I am finding that there are missing steps to examples and answers in the books compared to the level of detail in MST124. I understand that this is partly due to MST224 being a year two module. But as someone who really has to work ridiculously hard to understand the math, loosing this level of detail is feeling overwhelming. I am utilising online searching to try and fill the gaps, but this is time consuming. I have also booked onto tutorials to try and hopefully broaden my understanding. But at the moment I am often feeling a bit lost. Is anyone able to recommend some reliable resources that can help? Ideally ones that use step by step explanations but don't require hours of study on top of my current hours of study (there's only so much time in a day to life and study!).

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Hi all, looking for a bit of advice, may be a bit of a long one as I like to ramble!
My 3rd module starts in February 27, my 1st module was Oct 25 and second was Oct 26. I’ve tried to go on to apply for SFE and it states ‘You already have existing applications for all available academic years’.
If I’m correct is this due to me having to apply for an LLE once it’s open for applications or do I simply have to wait to do my 3rd module in October of 27?
Any help is appreciated!!

Hello, I’m looking for students who are doing this same course who’d want to join a WhatsApp group so that we can help each other out. Anybody interested?

I handed in my final piece of work for my degree in on the 14th September, however according to the website the result will not be published until the 8th December.

According to my tutor the department aim to get the EMA marked within a few days after submission.

Not having the result and not having the degree is hindering my ability to apply for graduate schemes.

Why on earth does it take so long?