Hi from the Dutch OU (not affiliated with the UK one, but similar in certain aspects). The standard of academic staff is much like any other uni: we try to ge

Hi from the Dutch OU (not affiliated with the UK one, but similar in certain aspects). The standard of academic staff is much like any other uni: we try to get the best we can. Here's our department's publication page (i haven't updated it since March though): http://cs.ou.nl/publications.php http://cs.ou.nl/publications.php (Quality: three TACAS'20 papers this year... and most of our departement doesn't target that conf) Our programmes are accredited by the same institution as other programmes of all other unis in NL. The accreditation committee was even impressed with the quality of our bachelor theses in comparison to other universities. I definitely think there's room for improvement, but the Dutch OU is a serious university, and aims for a high quality of teachers and teaching materials.