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The Open University’s future trends predictor reveals list of most in-demand jobs anticipated for major growth over next five years
Business, sustainability and digital entrepreneurs have backed a new campaign from The Open University that highlights skills and jobs forecast to be of vital importance to the growth of the UK economy in the coming years. Centring around the nationwide skills gap in management & business and computing & IT and against a backdrop of […]
Impact of COVID-19 on weddings reinforces need for marriage law reforms
Research by Dr Stephanie Pywell, from The Open University and Professor Rebecca Probert from the University of Exeter into the impact of COVID-19 on weddings has reinforced the need for marriage law reforms. Complications thrown up after events were cancelled due to the various lockdowns resulted in hundreds finding it difficult to reconvene, the research […]
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UK scientists join NASA’s first steps back to the Moon – and onward to Mars
A team of scientists from The Open University (OU) and RAL Space are collaborating with ESA and NASA to investigate the occurrence and behaviour of water on the Moon. Led by the OU’s Dr. Simeon Barber, the UK team has developed a sophisticated analytical instrument known as the Exospheric Mass Spectrometer (EMS) under a contract […]
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Opera star Laura Wright backs the Disabled Veterans’ Scholarships Fund as application deadline looms
Applications for this year’s Disabled Veterans’ Scholarships Fund (DVSF) are due to close on July 9th and the DVSF’s new ambassador, mezzo-soprano Laura Wright, is calling for eligible veterans to apply before the deadline. Laura became one of the decade’s biggest selling artists after she won BBC Chorister of the Year in 2005. She is […]
Gender Critical Research Network – A message from the Vice-Chancellor
Our University is not only a place of open debate but should be an exemplar of how to have these debates, bringing the standards of inquiry we have as an academic institution not just into our own conversations but taking them out into wider society. This, however, needs to be governed by clear rules that […]
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Advertising on GB News
The Open University (OU) conducted a review of the GB News channel as it would for any new broadcast outlet, to look at viability of running advertising. The review looked at a range of data sets and associated commercial broadcast data. As a result of the review’s conclusions, the OU will not be commencing advertising […]
A million years of past South Asian monsoons suggests stronger monsoon rainfall in the future
A study by an international research team including scientists from The Open University (OU) has had its findings published in the journal Science Advances. It found that increases in monsoon rainfall over the past million years were linked with increases in atmospheric CO2, continental ice volume and the import of moisture from the southern hemisphere, […]
77% of SME leaders lack skills to successfully implement new tech into their businesses
The Open University (OU) has jointly published a report with Be the Business called Skills for Success: supporting business leaders with digital adoption. The research involved surveying 1,500 business leaders of SMEs from across the UK that have needed to make drastic changes to adapt to the challenges of the pandemic. The report found that […]
TV cameras capture building of Britain’s biggest nuclear power station
A new series co-produced by the BBC and The Open University offers viewers a fascinating insight into the ambitious construction of Britain’s new nuclear power station, Hinkley Point C in Somerset. Building Britain’s Biggest Nuclear Power Station begins on Wednesday 2nd June at 9pm on BBC Two. The four-part series follows the engineers, technicians and […]
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‘Take your training online’ with new OU resource aimed at trainers in the NGO and charity sectors
The Open University (OU) has launched a new course designed to support trainers working for a charity, non-governmental agency, or similar third sector organisation, to move their face to face training online. At the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, many charities and NGOs were challenged with the task of moving their training online, often working […]
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