If you'd like to find out more about the issues and debates surrounding Africa, education and development issues, you can find much more in our International Development section or see below for details of Open University Courses as well as Further Reading and Weblinks.

Open University Courses
Individual Courses in Development - Undergraduate
U213 - International Development: Challenges for a World in Transition - International development in its many manifestations presents one of the most pressing challenges for the world this century. This course explores the nature of those issues and responses to them, in the context of changing global, political and economic circumstances. The emphasis of the course is on development needs wherever they arise, with their broadest global implications.

DU301- A World of Whose Making? - How can we best understand and analyse international developments such as the role of the World Trade Organization, the power of the USA, or global contests over culture and rights? What are the main forms of international order and disorder, and are they changing?

U212 - Childhood - What does childhood actually mean? Children's relationship to work, the economy, poverty issues, children's rights and more form the major themes of this course - including historical as well as international perspectives.

Degree programme - Undergraduate
International Studies By the end of this BA/BSc programme, you’ll have a broad understanding of contemporary global issues; of the key political, economic, environmental and cultural aspects of the global order; and of the dynamics of the global system. You’ll have an appreciation of cultural diversity and a knowledge of international institutions, together with an awareness of international citizenship

Post Graduate Programmes
The Open University offers three levels of Post Graduate study in International Development - the Postgraduate Certificate, the Postgraduate Diploma, and the MSc degree in Development Studies. All are aimed at professionals in project management and those who have responsibility for development initiatives in government, non-governmental organisations, international and inter-governmental agencies and public and private enterprises; people who intend to work in those areas, or who have an interest in public action for development; those who want to combine important elements of development and management; and those who want to expand their conceptual and practical skills by taking an international perspective on management.

The courses offered as part of these programmes are:
TU870 - Capacities for Managing Development

TU871 - Development: Context and Practice

TU872 - Institutional Development: Conflicts, Values and Meanings

TU874 - The Development Management Project

TU875 - War, Intervention and Development

Further Reading
Poverty and Development into the 21st Century
Tim Allen and Alan Thomas (editors)
ISBN: 0-19-877626-8, Oxford University Press
Publication Date: 2000
Breaking the pressing and complex questions of development down into single topics, this book combines chapters written by experts in each field with simple, visual aids - photographs, tables and diagrams. Poverty and Development offers an invaluable way to avoid the simplistic approach to the real challenges of the real world.

We have also collated an extensive selection of weblinks to Governmental and Non-Governmental Organisations who are working in Africa, find them on our Organisations in Africa page.