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The Open University has teamed up with Western Governors University to offer degrees in the United States.

Each is putting up $4 million to create the Governors Open University System, which will offer distance-learning higher education courses accredited by the OU's US subsidiary and a number of other US universities.

The first students on the Governors Open University System will enrol in March, subject to the OU-US gaining the accreditation that it is seeking.