The OU has uploaded three new podcasts on to iTunes U to coincide with the World Economic Forum.
In the first podcast Amartya Sen, the Nobel prize-winning economist and philosopher, talks about economics, welfare and his most recent book 'The Idea of Justice'. The ideas in this album can be studied further in the OU course DD309 Doing economics: people, markets and policy.
The Banking crisis podcast provides a fascinating insight into the downfall of the global financial markets in Autumn 2008, with material that forms part of (DB234) Personal investment in an uncertain world
The third podcast, Managing local… examines the dimensions of globalisation and the processes that connect people together. This study unit is just one of many that...
Newcomers to the study of law often regard the subject as an abstruse one, even though fascinating. This is partly because most students of law at universities encounter this complex and varied field for the first time, not having had the benefit of studying it previously in school. This is the motivation for Professor Gary Slapper’s new book ‘How the Law Works.’
His new book is a useful and engaging source of explanation of the law of England and Wales in clear, plain English. Students and non-lawyers alike, wishing to improve their knowledge of the law will love it.
Whether you know anything about the law or not, law affects just about everything in your world, whether important or unimportant. ‘The rule of law is the first rule of a...
Small firms in Britain are now showing positive sales performances for the first time in two years and new business starts continue to rise, according to the latest Quarterly Survey of Small Business in Britain from The Open University Business School.
With the exception of small retailers, a balance of small firms in all sectors reports an improved sales performance. Small firms are also generally more positive about prospects for sales in the next quarter, with hotels and restaurants being the only sector not expecting any improvement. In the last survey, hotels and restaurants...
The Vice Chancellor, Martin Bean is giving a keynote speech at The Part-Time Forum in Glasgow today (Thursday, January 13th).
Leading figures from Scotland’s education and skills sectors are coming together to explore how part-time learning can help Scotland achieve its ambition to become a high skill economy.
The 2011 Part-Time Forum, led by The Open University in Scotland and University of the West of Scotland (UWS) will be held at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Glasgow.
On the theme ‘Making Part-Time Learning Work for Scotland’, the event will be chaired by journalist and broadcaster Ruth Wishart and speakers include Angela Constance, Minister for Skills and Lifelong Learning; Mark Batho, Chief Executive, Scottish Funding Council; Aileen...
The Open University Business School is proud to announce its first MBA Essay Competition.
The competition is open to existing Open University students (of all disciplines) as well as prospective students.
Applicants will be required to write an essay in response to a question posed by the MBA academic panel within the Business School. All essays received will then be assessed by the panel and the winner announced.
The prize for the successful applicant will be full sponsorship for Stage One of the MBA (B716).
To apply for entry into the competition and to receive details of the essay question, please read our terms and conditions for the competition and then submit the entry.
The closing date for applications is March 4 2011,...
We hear much about eureka moments that launched exciting new businesses. But what happens after taking that bold step to become your own boss?
Juggling family and work demands, running businesses from home, the role of friends and family members, lifestyle, resource acquisition, and the fascinating, messy realities of entrepreneurs are themes explored in this series by Dr. MariaLaura Di Domenico of the Open University.
Monday (January 3rd ) marked the 40th anniversary of the first OU broadcast on the BBC.
Since that first broadcast, over 7,000 television and 4,000 radio programmes have been produced as part of The Open University and BBC partnership, with over 300 million people tuning in to OU/BBC in 2009/2010 alone.
Broadcasts began with late night lectures, transmitted when students would be available to watch them, to provide visual teaching to students enrolled with the new distance-learning Open University.
Open University Social Scientist, Professor Michael Drake, took part in the early pioneering recordings and recalled the challenges: “Each programme took one day. We rehearsed once then recorded it with no stopping because of errors....
The Open University (OU) is taking part in YouTube’s Project for Awesome 2010 – an initiative to promote international charities on the video sharing website.
The OU has created a video which focuses on its international work to provide education in Africa. The video is expected to be uploaded today (Friday, December 17th) an available to view via www3.open.ac.uk/p4a
The aim of the University's involvement with the project is to encourage donations to the University. The Global Project for Awesome event is set to begin at midnight on Saturday and will continue through Sunday. It is hoped that the event will push the OU's video on to the front page of YouTube.
Vice-Chancellor Martin Bean said: “We create incredible educational content, much...
A total of 34 Open University Business School MBA students from Russia are celebrating their graduation as they join a growing international cohort of more than 20 000 MBA alumni.
The students will be presented with their Master of Business Administration awards at a degree ceremony to be held at the British Embassy in Moscow on Friday 3 December. They will be joined at the ceremony by 6 students who have successfully completed the MSc International Finance and Management and 8 graduates of the BA (Hons) Business Studies programme.
Their graduation brings to 367 the number of Open University Business School MBA graduates in Russia. At the ceremony, the graduates will be joined by Dr Anthoula Madden, Director of Business Development at The Open...
A new BBC2 series tells the story of how big business feeds us. With unprecedented access to the world’s largest food companies including Kelloggs, Nestlé, CocaCola PepsiCo and Danone, this is the inside story of how the explosive growth of the industry ushered in an age of plenty in the West and fundamentally changed the way we live our lives.
The second episode 'The Age of Plenty' is broadcast on Tuesday 30th November at 9pm on BBC TWO and tells the incredible story of how business has turned grain into the biggest success story of the modern food industry. Inside...
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