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Negotiations, handling meetings, inter‐viewing are just a few of the management skills that students of the Open Business School aim to perfect at a series of residential study weekends held as part of the School's first courses. More than 2,300 people have now applied to join, including managers with little or no formal training and some relatively new to the management field. They have attended residential schools at 14 locations including the Civil Service College, AA National Training Centre, Manchester Business School, National Coal Board Staff College, and South West Regional Management Centre. The first courses are The Effective Manager and Personnel Selection and Interviewing. The study mix includes face‐to‐face tutorials in small groups, marked assignments, television and audio‐centred tutorials, and distance learning at home: reading, set book work, exercises and activities.