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Understanding and managing risk
Money & Business

Understanding and managing risk

...business activities. In the future, you may want to pursue a career in risk management – with an organisation, an auditing company or perhaps a regulatory body. The risk management business has grown over the past three decades in reaction to the glaringly apparent risk management failings of organisations. Certainly, since the global banking crisis, risk management has...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Take the next step with an Open University short course
Education & Development

Take the next step with an Open University short course

...business management and computing to creative arts and languages. Created by our leading OU academics, and with many courses endorsed by leading industry partners, you can be confident in getting world-class learning and practical skills that you can immediately apply in the real world. Julia Pennacchia, who studied a short course with the OU, said: From the very start of...
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Canals: The Making of a Nation - Find out more
History & The Arts

Canals: The Making of a Nation - Find out more

...businesses and transport their products, but soon canal companies began to form simply to get in the business of building new waterways to carry fuel and goods around the country, and charging companies and boat owners to use them. Out of the industrial revolution came an emerging middle class and a new crop of business owners with money to invest. They put their cash to...
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Diversity in Education: Challenging the Norm in Academic Recruitment
Education & Development

Diversity in Education: Challenging the Norm in Academic Recruitment

...Business and Law (FBL) at The Open University. The project was premised on the fact that the largest group of stakeholders, after students, are the Associate Lecturers (ALs), also known as tutors. Associate Lecturers are responsible for teaching delivery, where they are the ‘face’ of OU academic staff for students. The OU has over 4,000 ALs, the largest body of...
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Article 15 mins
MAED (Applied Linguistics) at the OU
Languages

MAED (Applied Linguistics) at the OU

...business/professional communication, healthcare and many other real-life settings. You will develop a solid grounding in a range of ideas and techniques within applied linguistics (e.g. semantics, pragmatics, intercultural communication, conversation analysis, ethnography, language and globalisation, role of technologies) and apply this to case studies from a variety of...
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Open door to success
Education & Development

Open door to success

...business...Find out more about The Open University's courses and qualifications [DWP and OpenLearn logos] Through partnerships with leading providers of online education, the DWP are promoting resources that will benefit learners everywhere. They have selected these OpenLearn courses to enhance your digital and employability skills, so you can prepare more effectively to...
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Critical Reflection
Money & Business

Critical Reflection

...The value of generosity in management Is the idea of being generous compatible with the tough world of business? The value of improvisation in management Can ideas from improvised Jazz help you improve your management practice? The value of conversation in management Conversations, rather than individual intentions, can have the biggest impact on our management decisions....
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Decision trees and dealing with uncertainty
Money & Business

Decision trees and dealing with uncertainty

...business decisions. The course also includes videos that introduce the key ideas and guide you through numerous examples...This free course introduces basic ideas of probability. It focuses on dealing with uncertainty in a financial context and explores decision trees, a powerful decision-making technique, which can help you to simplify and formulate business decisions....
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs