The Open University Business School is offering a number of research studentships (currently circa £15,000 per annum) from 1 October 2011. Funding is available for a range of research projects which are described here www.open.ac.uk/business-school-phd
Applications are invited from candidates wishing to study for a full-time MRes in Management and Business Research or a PhD in Management. The MRes provides advanced level research methods training and is relevant to those wishing to go on to study for a PhD. You will only be considered for direct entry onto the PhD programme if you have had demonstrable training (equivalent to an MRes) in research methods...
The Open University Business School’s Centre for Public Leadership and Social Enterprise is hosting a seminar presented by Professor Alex Nicholls, a lecturer in Social Entrepreneurship at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford in Milton Keynes on Tuesday 1st March 2.00-3.30pm.
Professor Nicholls will be presenting a paper entitled Caught On the Boundary? The Micro-Processes of Social Movement-Corporate Relationships that will examine recent developments in social movements from an explicit focus on political structures towards harnessing economic systems for societal change.
This change is establishing a new set of relationships between social movements and business organizations. However, whilst new sets of relations between social...
The Open University has licensed the CIO Executive Council Pathways competency framework, which allows future CIOs to follow a clearly devised learning plan, from IT staff to Board level. The framework will be mapped to The Open University’s extensive online industry curriculum to provide future Chief Information Officers with the essential skills required to reach Board status.
This strategic partnership addresses the issues raised by Reed's annual job index which suggested that the UK's need for IT professionals is 23% higher now than at the start of 2010. Furthermore, e-skills UK, the Sector Skills Council for Business and Information Technology, states that the number of IT and telecom professionals will grow at four times the rate of other sectors...
NatWest Bank has closed the MBA loan scheme it ran in conjunction with the London-based Association of MBAs. Under the scheme, students attending MBA programmes accredited by the association could apply for preferential loans from NatWest.
However students wishing to study with the Open University Business School can elects to spread their payments with an OUSBA (Open University Student Budget Account) loan.
OUSBA will pay course fees on behalf of the student allowing the student to either repay the loan in full before their course begins without incurring any interest charges or repay OUSBA in monthly instalment spread over the term of your course.
The number of instalments depends on the length of the course and the interest rate is...
Dr Fahri Karakas, Research Fellow in The Open University Business School has been chosen as joint winner of the 2010 Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Award in the Leadership and Organization Development category for his research on “Benevolent Leadership”.
The awards seek to celebrate excellence in research by sponsoring these Research Awards. Award-winning entries received a cash prize of €1,500, a certificate, a winners' logo to attach to correspondence and the prospect of an offer of publication in the sponsoring journal.
Dr Karakas’ submission was based on his thesis on Benevolent Leadership. In his thesis, he developed a conceptual model of benevolent leadership based on four concepts of common good which...
The Open University has collaborated with Zed Books to publish a new book entitled The Business of Human Rights.
The book is edited by Helen Yanacopulos (Senior Lecturer in International Politics and Development at The Open University) and Aurora Voiculescu (Senior Lecturer in Socio-Legal Studies and Human Rights, University of Westminster).
This timely collection of essays addresses the interface between the calls for corporate social responsibility (CSR) and the demands for an extension of international human rights standards.
Scholars from a vast variety of backgrounds provide expert yet accessible accounts of questions of law, politics, economics and international relations and how they relate to one another.
The book also...
The Open University is held up as a model in a high-profile report which recommends the UK invest more than £100 million over five years to boost online learning.
Collaborate to Compete, published on January 27th by the Higher Education Funding Council, says the UK set a “world standard in distance learning” by establishing The Open University.
It recommends that the OU, along with JISC and the Higher Education Academy , should lead on a £25 million initiative to develop and exploit the potential of open educational resources.
The report also singles out the OU as the only public, not-for-profit higher education provider to have been conspicuously successful at working on a large scale.
It cites the OU’s virtual learning...
Open University Business School MBA graduate and Associate Lecturer, Chelliah Yogamoorthy, has received an MBE in the New Year Honours List.
Chelliah, a Lead Quantity Surveyor in Network Delivery and Development based in Birmingham, received the award for ‘service to the public sector’ particularly for his commercial acumen in managing the costs of demanding construction projects.
He has also contributed to the effective and efficient delivery of road and bridge building and maintenance through his frontline expertise as an engineer and quantity surveyor.
Chelliah said: “Throughout my 23 years I have been lucky to have worked with some marvellous people amongst colleagues and outside business partners. I have been particularly fortunate over...
Throughout 2011, BBC Four and The Open University will explore the meaning of justice in the modern world in a series of new films and online features.
To complement the season, OpenLearn have launched two brand new interactive games, To Lie Or Not To Lie and What’s Your Verdict?
To Lie Or Not To Lie aims to make you think about your moral responses to different lies and allows you to figure out which philosopher you’re most like. It was developed with Timothy Chappell as academic consultant, Professor of Philosophy and director of The Open University Ethics Centre.
To play, visit OpenLearn [http://www.open.ac.uk/openlearn/history-the-arts/culture/philosophy/lie-or-not-lie] and remember to share it on Twitter and Facebook!
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Employers highly value graduates who gained their qualification while studying and working part time, research published today by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and the Higher Education Careers Services Unit (HECSU) reveals.
Around a third of employers said that their views of part time study have improved based on the experience of their employees.
The Futuretrack: Part-time Students from an Employer Perspective research showed that 40 per cent of part time students reported that their employers paid all of their course fees and 8 per cent received partial fee support.
Moreover, the Government will give extra support to part-time students in higher education by bringing in changes to student finance arrangements from...
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