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28/03/2013 - 12:02
How philosophy and psychotherapy meet in existential counselling
Philosophy and counselling may sound like unlikely bedfellows, but they have come together in a novel form of therapy called existential counselling. One of the leading exponents of the British school of existential counselling is Dr Darren Langdridge, head of the OU's department of Psychology. He's just published a new book, Existential Counselling and Psychotherapy. So what is existential...
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28/03/2013 - 11:52
The top 20 most wanted professions in the world
Around the world there are a number of professions in high demand. The BBC Business website has compiled a list of the top 20 most wanted professions internationally, and the countries that want them. The list includes psychologists, physiotherapists and chefs, and there are case studies. Is your profession there? Check it out on Global migrants: Which is the most wanted profession?
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22/03/2013 - 18:31
Learning and loving it
Joe Pasquale is a third of the way towards his Natural Science degree with the OU, and hoping to finish in the next two years. Catch up with Joe's progress in his interview in the Mirror. Photo courtesy of The Mirror
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14th July 2011
Join the audience for a recording of Click at OU Milton Keynes
Join the audience for a special recording of the flagship BBC radio programme Click on Monday 18 July at the OU's Milton Keynes campus. The BBC's Gareth Mitchell hosts a panel with the OU's Tony Hirst and Ray Corrigan in the final part of the OU and Digital Planet collaborative series on 'openness' in the Berrill Lecture Theatre. The show concludes a series of six...
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11th July 2011
OU professor champions more investment in innovation
Britain’s economy will fail to reach its potential unless Government commissions technological advances in the green sector that the private sector considers too risky, says a report from think tank Demos authored by OU Professor of the Economics of Innovation Mariana Mazzucato (pictured). The Entrepreneurial State published today (11 July) says that the...
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5th July 2011
OU helps tackle looming IT recruitment crisis – story in the Independent today
At a time when 83 graduates are chasing each job vacancy, a recruitment crisis is looming in the UK’s information technology industry. The sector skills council for IT, e-skills UK, says the UK will need additional 500,000 workers in IT and telecommunications over the next five years. But numbers of people taking IT-related subject at university have...
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Business Perspectives: change management masterclass 11 July
The fourth event in the Business Perspectives series is taking place on 11 July 2013 in London. Entitled ‘Putting it into practice: the acid test of strategic...
HRH Duke of York visits OU
Progress in distance learning and innovation at the OU aimed at tackling the UK’s skills gap was shared with His Royal Highness The Duke of York when he visited the...
Passed over for management - till he signed up with the OU
Paul Conwell was always led to believe he couldn’t achieve anything after receiving countless knock-backs at school, college and work. Then it all changed when he...
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