News from The Open University

• 16 Jun 2011

  • Open University places business relevance at the heart of new undergraduate degrees to address IT skills gap

    The Open University | Milton Keynes | 2011-06-16

    The Open University has launched two new undergraduate Computing and IT degrees to help the UK overcome a recruitment crisis which sees employers struggling to fill an estimated 110,000 new IT jobs created this year [3]. Developed alongside e-skills UK and representatives from industry, the degrees incorporate work-based learning and offer credit for prior work experience to ensure they are fully compatible with current industry needs.
    
    
    
    

• 26 May 2011

  • Open University engineering degrees receive IMechE accreditation

    The Open University | Milton Keynes | 2011-05-26

    The Open University has just received accreditation from The Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) for its engineering degrees. This is in addition to their recent re-accreditation by the Institution of Engineering Designers (IED) and Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE). Professional membership of engineering institutions requires formal assessment and recognition of the level of experience and qualifications achieved.
    

  • New technology to help young children's reading

    The Open University | Milton Keynes | 2011-05-26

    Researchers at The Open University have created a free 'app' to help parents teach their children to read.
    Our Story has been designed to be used on mobile devices, such as the iphone or iPad. The app incorporates research findings and theory to provide the experiences known to develop the abilities and motivation for reading. Parents can easily create their own personal picture books, stories and games and in doing so support vocabulary development and reading skills.
    

• 27 Apr 2011

  • Small manufacturers show the most positive growth in Britain’s SME sector

    The Open University | UK | 2011-04-27

    With the welcome exception of manufacturing, the pace of recovery among Britain’s small businesses appears to have paused over the past quarter according to the Quarterly Survey of Small Business in Britain, which is produced by The Open University Business School and supported by ACCA (The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) and Barclays Business.
    

• 08 Mar 2011

  • First ever UK Cyber Security Champion selects Open University course as prize

    The Open University | Milton Keynes | 2011-03-08

    Dan Summers, a postman from Wakefield, is the newly crowned winner of the Cyber Security Challenge UK, a nationwide competition set up to find future security professionals. One of his prizes is a Computer Forensics and Investigations course with The Open University, and Dan is keen to further develop his skills.
    
    

• 16 Feb 2011

  • Future IT workers lack business know-how to stave off skills shortage warns Open University report

    The Open University | Derby | 2011-02-16

    Research presented today by The Open University suggests that the IT industry and higher education must collaborate to improve the readiness of future professionals to succeed in the workplace and help mitigate the worst affects of an imminent skills shortage.
    
    

• 10 Feb 2011

  • The Open University and CIO Executive Council Partner to Educate Future CIOs to Reach Board Level Status

    The Open University | Milton Keynes | 2011-02-10

    The Open University has licensed the CIO Executive Council Pathways competency framework, which allows future CIOs to follow a clearly devised learning plan, from IT staff to Board level. The framework will be mapped to The Open University's extensive online industry curriculum online to provide future Chief Information Officers with the essential skills required to reach Board status.

• 08 Feb 2011

  • ITT Gold Award for OU course that brings the design studio to your home computer

    The Open University | Milton Keynes | 2011-02-08

    An online course that teaches students how to design everything from games to T-shirts won the top prize at the IT Training Awards 2011. The Open University’s ‘Design Thinking: Creativity For The 21st Century’ is the first to take a design studio learning environment online and allows students to share ideas, collaborate on projects and feedback on each other’s work.

• 17 Dec 2010

  • YouTube backs Open University appeal for Africa

    The Open University | Milton Keynes | 2010-12-17

    The Open University (OU) has been invited to take part in YouTube’s Project for Awesome 2010 – an initiative to promote international charities addressing global challenges on the video sharing website.

• 01 Dec 2010

  • Open University aligns higher education with internationally recognised SFIA skills framework

    The Open University | London | 2010-12-01

    The Open University today announced that it has developed a set of tools and resources to enable employers to identify appropriate higher education modules, qualifications and continuous professional development (CPD) courses using the internationally recognised Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA).

• 18 Nov 2010

  • Open University/e-skills programme attracts women in IT

    The Open University | Milton Keynes | 2010-11-18

    Almost one third of IT professionals taking e-skills UK’s new industry-designed postgraduate programme at The Open University are women - more than double the industry average.
    

  • The Open University embraces the Linked Open Data Movement

    The Open University | Milton Keynes | 2010-11-18

    The Open University (OU) is the first university in the UK to open up access to online data from across the institution as part of the Linked Open Data Movement.

• 06 Oct 2010

  • Study Cisco CCNA with The Open University

    The Open University | Milton Keynes | 2010-10-06

    The UK's largest Cisco Academy, The Open University, is celebrating its rapidly growing suite of IT vendor certifications by offering two free places to study the Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) programme starting in February 2011.
    

• 30 Jul 2010

  • Virtual world conference will address core issues in contemporary society

    The Open University | Milton Keynes, UK | 2010-07-30

    The use of virtual worlds for learning, collaborative work and business ventures will be explored in a unique conference on 15 September 2010. The Virtual World Conference 2010 will follow the sun and is hosted over a 24-hour period entirely in Second Life – a three-dimensional space where millions of users can create their own worlds and interact with others from around the globe.

• 26 Jul 2010

  • Wanted: Cyber Experts to Defend UK Online

    The Open University | London | 2010-07-26

    26th July 2010: Leading higher education organisations are at the heart of the UK’s first national hunt for future cyber security professionals launching today in central London. The Cyber Security Challenge UK is a series of online and face-to-face competitions designed by leading universities (including The Open University, Royal Holloway, Queen’s University Belfast), security companies, trade bodies and government departments.

• 23 Jun 2010

  • The Open University becomes a certified Microsoft IT Academy

    The Open University | Milton Keynes, UK | 2010-06-23

    The Open University (OU) is now a certified Microsoft IT Academy adding to its fast-growing suite of IT vendor certifications. The first course in the OU's Microsoft IT Academy programme TM128 Microsoft server technologies launches in October 2010 and registration is now open. The establishment of the Microsoft IT Academy builds on the OU's successful relationship with Cisco - it currently has the largest and fastest growing Cisco Academy in the UK.
    

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