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The government's search outside the UK for the next chief inspector of schools is misguided.

Left-wing grassroots movements are swelling their ranks and winning elections – but their standard-bearers are same old, same old.

The OUBS is ranked joint sixth in the Global Online MBA Rankings, alongside IE Business School.

How can organisations use their brands as an instrument that captures and is part of their business model? The Breakfast Briefing, which took place on 26 January 2016, saw Dr Cláudia Simões, Senior Lecturer in Marketing explore the ways brands may be used as an asset to an organisation’s marketing and to the organisation itself.

The system of oversight of England's academy schools has been criticised

Systems thinking is a highly effective approach to managing organisations.To get the complete picture, leaders need an in-depth knowledge of the entire organisation, its various moving parts, and how each component impacts upon the rest. But there’s more to systems thinking than that.

The OU is developing the UK’s first community based website that will allow people in Milton Keynes to have greater control of their energy needs. Through the use of interactive data analytics and information from local energy suppliers, individuals or groups can more effectively use the resources available.

64% of UK employees have never received any personal finance education, according to research commissioned on behalf of the OUBS and Share Radio.

The OU has launched the 2016 Entrepreneurship Competition. The competition will help students and recent graduates take their business ideas forward by securing cash prizes to invest in their ventures.

The Open University Business School has been shortlisted for the Association of MBAs Innovation Award which recognises new practices, risks and creativity initiated around AMBA-accredited programmes.