Government Framework
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Government Procurement Service
The Government Procurement Service is designed to make the purchasing of learning and development and e-learning solutions more simple and tailors these to public sector needs. This EU compliant framework agreement enables public sector organisations to commission training and development without the need for further procurement exercises, so substantially reduces the administrative burden on government and local authority buying teams. The Open University is the only Higher Education Institution that supplies solutions under the Social Awareness, Vocational Training, Bespoke eLearning and Generic eLearning categories. |
Partnerships
The OU works closely with key membership organisations to assist in the delivery of learning opportunities to their members
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Royal College of Nursing The OU-RCN strategic alliance brings together two of the strongest players in healthcare education to provide flexible, accessible and innovative education and training for employees at all levels. |
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UNISON The OU has worked in close partnership with UNISON since 1994. In this period hundreds of individual members have accessed a 10% discount on courses as well as many others benefiting from in-house schemes negotiated with employers. |
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Cisco Systems As a Cisco Academy, The Open University can offer students the opportunity to study the Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) programme. |
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Accreditations
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Business School AACSB, Association of MBAs, EQUIS |
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BCS CITP / CEng / CSci / IEng programme accreditation |
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IED OU’s BEng (Hons) and integrated MEng degrees were accredited for CEng by the Institution of Engineering Designers in June 2008. MEng meets the full educational requirements for CEng. BEng (Hons) holders also need to complete ´further learning to masters level´ UK Standard for Professional Engineering Competence (UK-SPEC [2]). |
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TWI Foundation Degree scheme where students will gain credits for welding engineering diploma courses taught at TWI. |
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CIBSE (Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers) OU MEng degree & OU BEng degree accreditation for CEng |
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CompTIA Linux+ accreditation |
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Association for Project Management (APM) Project Management accreditation |
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Microsoft IT Academy As a Microsoft IT Academy, the Open University provides access to Microsoft´s elearning curriculum which supports preparation towards current Microsoft Certification exams in Active Directory Configuration and Network Infrastructure Configuration. |
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VMware IT Academy |
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Health Professions Council Our courses comply with Health Professions Council standards |
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CPCAB Our Foundation Degree in Counselling has been developed in partnership with CPCAB |
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BMJ Learning Our Clinical Leadership courses have been developed with BMJ Learning |
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Nursing and Midwifery Council |
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Industry Approvals
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Youth Justice Board The OU is the preferred provider of the Foundation Degree in Youth Justice, and the award is approved and kitemarked by the Youth Justice Board. |