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The OU wins grant to create National Centre for Policing Research & Professional Development

The OU has been awarded £1.36m of funding over 19 months from the Police Knowledge Fund, a joint initiative between The College of Policing, HEFCE and the Home Office.

5th August 2015

MBA Case Builder wins prestigious education awards

The OU’s MBA Business Case Builder has won two industry awards: Gold in the annual Heist Awards in the category of ‘Best use of innovation and creative thinking’ and Silver in the CASE Circle of Excellence Awards in the category of ‘Individual sub-websites’.

4th August 2015

OU/BBC launch interactive attitude to money test

The BBC has launched an interactive test to shed light on people’s relationship with money. The test is based on a scientific survey of more than 100,000 people, which looked at their attitudes to money and what financial consequences this could have.

13th July 2015

Outstanding students celebrated in annual awards

The achievements of outstanding students and alumni have been celebrated in The Open University Business School’s annual Achievement Awards 2014/15 during a special ceremony held in Milton Keynes.

18th June 2015

Culture & identity in business: negotiating a marketing perspective

Our Breakfast Briefing on 7 July 2015, saw Dr Andrew Lindridge talk about Culture and identity in business and the emergence of China as a key market for many prestigious European brands.

18th May 2015

Using values to motivate your staff

The Breakfast Briefing took place on 6 May 2015 and saw Dr Sarah Williams, OU associate lecturer and principal associate of the Sustainable Business Company explore the role of values in making sense of complex ideas.

6th May 2015
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The OU combines open access with research excellence

The Open University’s results in the Research Excellence Framework (REF) demonstrate world leading research excellence in many of its subjects.

18th December 2014

Managing SMEs: research insights and implications for practice

Dr Richard Blundel, Senior Lecturer in Enterprise Development, shared insights from The Quarterly Survey of Small Business in Britain. In these video highlights, Richard reports on what SME owners and managers see as the best and worst aspects of owning and/or managing their own business

7th October 2014

Furthering the UK's Financial Know-How

Martin Upton, Director for The True Potential Centre for the Public Understanding of Finance at The OU Business School introduces us to the Centre.

6th May 2014

Sport as the Local Economic Game Changer

With the awarding of Milton Keynes as a venue for the 2015 World Cup we explore the challenges now face the UK’s fastest growing sub-region.

13th February 2014