Associate Lecturer Laurie Knell discusses the questions 'What tells us we need to change?' 'What tells us we should just leave things as they are?'
The Open University Business School regularly features in the media. Most recent and notable articles are listed below.
QS Quacquarelli Symonds, the leading provider of World University Rankings, have today released the fifth edition of their annual QS Distance Online MBA Rankings. The Open University Business School is ranked eleventh in the world.
Organisations are demanding more and more from their learning functions, but is L&D up to the job?
Business performance is at risk because learning programmes have failed to keep up with globalisation, according to a new report from The Open University Business School.
The latest CBI Education and Skills survey is clear – UK businesses remain concerned about filling high skilled jobs and predict this will only get harder as Brexit becomes a reality. A key component of the Government strategy for plugging this gap in high-level skills is the Apprenticeship levy.
The Open University Business School are very excited to be hosting this year’s Leadership for Public and Social Value International Conference this week on 6 – 7 April 2017.
The Open University Business School has won the Business Partnership category for its collaboration with financial services company True Potential LLP at the Guardian University Awards 2017.
Is having a workforce full of critical thinkers an impossible dream – or a nightmare to be avoided?
During this Breakfast Briefing on 14 March 2017, Dr Alex Wright, Senior Lecturer in Strategic Management at The Open University Business School, explained his research project idea that would examine how critical thinking is understood among employers and practitioners.

Thursday, May 21, 2026 - 10:00 to 16:30
The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA
Join us at this year’s annual conference as we celebrate the 10th anniversary of CVSL. Together we’ll reflect on a decade of impact and look ahead to the next ten years, featuring insights and reflections from former CVSL directors.
Wednesday, September 2, 2026 - 09:00 to Friday, September 4, 2026 - 17:00
University of Donja Gorica, Oktoih 1, Podgorica 81000, Montenegro
This academic conference hopes to draw feminist scholars, activists and communities together to consider what caring feminism across borders might mean now and for the future.