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We live in a populist age – but who are 'the people'?

The True Potential Centre for the Public Understanding of Finance (True Potential PUFin) supplied written evidence for a hard-hitting report from the House of Commons Treasury Committee on the vulnerable state of UK household finances.

Migrants may choose to build either ethnic social capital or cross-cultural social capital. Their migration journey, reception upon arrival and thereafter, educational attainment and cultural competences will also affect how they engage with public institutions in their countries of destination.

Dr Fidèle Mutwarasibo, Visiting Research Fellow at The Open University Business School’s Centre for Voluntary Sector Leadership, shares his experience in developing, sustaining and enhancing his social capital in Milton Keynes over the last four years

A new four-part OU/BBC series, Economics with Subtitles, starts on Radio 4 on Saturday (4 August) lunchtime.

It’s been two years since a coalition of lobbying groups in the UK successfully challenged Home Office policy on the immigration detention of pregnant women. 

Our MBA alumni have the chance to pilot two new three-week short courses for free from September – and we only want your feedback in exchange!

The University’s informal student shadowing initiative saw Spanish internal auditor German Yanez and aspiring journalist Ana Chowdry recently spend the day with academic Dr Terry O’Sullivan.

The Open University Business School (OUBS) has been awarded EQUIS reaccreditation for three years to maintain its status as one of only 1% of business schools in the world with triple accreditation.

During this Breakfast Briefing on 19 June 2018, Dr Peter Bloom, Senior Lecturer in Organisational Studies and Head of the Department for People and Organisations at The Open University Business School, gave his thoughts on the Future of Work in relation to the widely-predicted 'fourth industrial revolution'.