Attention: business correspondentsPR 4566 March 21, 2002
HALF-PRICE COURSES AND FREE BUSINESS MASTERCLASSES ON OFFER TO NOTTINGHAMSHIRE MANAGERS
The Open University Business School (OUBS) is offering half-price course fees to managers in small and medium-sized businesses and the voluntary sector throughout Nottinghamshire.
The OUBS is also holding a series of free business masterclasses for all managers covering issues such as dealing with change, and how to increase profit and cashflow.
The OUBS can offer the reduced price course fees thanks to a successful bid for European funding through the Nottingham Learning and Skills Council.
Voluntary sector managers, or small to medium enterprise (SME) managers from companies with fewer than 250 employees, can study a three-month module from the Professional Certificate in Management.
The courses available are: Managing; Managing People; Managing Finance and Information; or Managing Customers and Quality, with start dates in May and August.
The half-price course fee reduces the cost of the chosen course to £300.
Those who choose to continue studying the remaining three modules at the full price can build to a Professional Certificate in Management and then go on to study for the Professional Diploma in Management and the MBA.
To qualify for the fee reduction, managers and aspiring managers must live or work in Nottinghamshire.
OUBS Regional Manager Lin Smith says that over the last three years more than 40 managers have taken advantage of this offer with tremendous success:
“Of those who have studied a half-price module with us, around 90% have continued with the programme at their own expense, or have received support from their employer, and qualified with the Certificate in Management,” she said. m/f
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Alison Hollyer from ILEX, the Institute of Legal Executives in Nottingham, starting studying for the Certificate in Management after taking a half-price course. She said:
"For me it was an ideal way to return to lifelong learning after a long gap. The flexible nature of the course allowed me to put my toe in the educational pool again and the offer of half-price fees was an added bonus."
The OUBS is also organising a free Masterclass Series of seminars which are open to all managers and will cover a full range of management development issues. The seminars will be held in April, May and June.
To book a place on the seminar series, or to register for the half-price course offer, contact the OUBS Enquiries and Advice team on 0115 962 5475 or e-mail Linda Fisher at , as soon as possible.
Details of OUBS courses are available at and a six-week programme of sample course materials for a selection of OUBS programmes including the Certificate in Management, Certificate in Accounting, MBA and MA in Marketing, can be sent to your PC by e-mail by registering on the website.
Editor’s Notes
The Open University Business School (OUBS) is Europe’s leading business school and a major provider of management development programmes, delivered by supported distance learning. Since its inception in 1983, more than 150,000 managers have studied an OUBS course at Certificate, Diploma or MBA level. Currently the OUBS has 30,000 students based in the UK and more than 40 countries.
The Open University Business School was awarded the prestigious European quality accreditation (EQUIS) from the European Foundation for Management Development (efmd) in 2000, and is one of only ten UK schools to pass the rigorous assessment process. The MBA programme has been accredited by AMBA (the Association of MBAs) since 1994. The OUBS has also developed a significant research capability based in eight research units, and boasts one of the three largest Alumni Associations for MBA graduates outside the United States. The School is based at the Open University’s Milton Keynes headquarters in Buckinghamshire. Its world wide web site can be found at:
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OU Media RelationsFiona Leslie01908 653256