Vice-Chancellor
- Employer
- OPEN UNIVERSITY
- Location
- Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire (GB)
- Salary
- Commensurate with experience
- Closing date
- 19 Sep 2024
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- Job Type
- Senior Management & Heads of Department, Vice-chancellors / Principals / Provosts / Presidents
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Job Details
Primary Practice Group: Higher Education and Research
Salary & Benefits: Commensurate with experience
Closing Date: 22/09/2024
Formal Interview Date: Early to mid-December 2024
A unique University is looking for a unique leader like you.
A global leader in higher education, the Open University has opened a world of opportunities for millions of people since 1969. Pioneers in the use of technology to enable students to learn and live, we have transformed lives. Our mission to be open to people, places, methods and ideas is as important now as it has ever been, to give people the tools to tackle inequality, to expose fake news, to build safe, sustainable communities and harness the power of digital transformation.
If you share a commitment to our mission, have a passion for students and their success, and experience of compassionate leadership in a complex, turbulent environment, please follow the link to The Open University.
If you need further clarifications, or an informal, confidential conversation about the role, please contact our advisors at Perrett Laver. Arshya Dayal (Research Associate) on arshya.dayal@perrettlaver.com or +44 (0)20 3928 7392.
For further information and instructions on how to apply, please click the 'Download Further Details' button below.
The closing date for applications is midnight (GMT) on Sunday 22nd September 2024.
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Company
The Open University (OU) is the largest academic institution in the UK and a world leader in flexible distance learning. Since it began in 1969, the OU has taught more than 1.8 million students and has almost 180,000 current students, including more than 15,000 overseas.
The OU was given an overall satisfaction rating of 90% in the latest National Student Survey, making it one of only three Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) to consistently score 90% or above every year since 2007. Over 70% of students are in full-time or part-time employment, and four out of five FTSE 100 companies have sponsored staff to take OU courses.
In the latest assessment exercise for university research (Research Excellence Framework), nearly three quarters (72%) of The Open University’s research was assessed as 4 or 3 star – the highest ratings available – and awarded to research that is world-leading or internationally excellent. The Open University is unique among UK universities having both an access mission and demonstrating research excellence.
The OU has a 41 year partnership with the BBC and has moved from late-night lectures in the 1970s to co-producing prime-time series such as Frozen Planet, The Bottom Line, Britain’s Great War, I Bought a Rainforest and Business Boomers. In 2013/14 OU co-productions were viewed by 220m people in the UK which prompted more than 600k visits the OU’s free learning website, OpenLearn. (http://www.open.edu/openlearn/).
Regarded as Britain’s major e-learning institution, the OU is a world leader in developing technology to increase access to education on a global scale. Its vast ‘open content portfolio’ includes free study units on OpenLearn, which received 5.2million unique visitors in 2012/13, and materials on iTunes U, which has recorded more than 66 million downloads.
- Telephone
- +(44)01908 274066
- Location
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WALTON HALL
MILTON KEYNES
BUCKINGHAMSHIRE
MK7 6AA
GB
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