Opinion Student Recruitment

Business school induction should start with flourishing, not retention

Business school induction should be about more than retaining students. In this opinion piece, Andrew Doyle MBA, CMBE, Associate Dean of Education & Student Experience, challenges universities to look beyond continuation metrics and consider how induction can help students flourish.

14th October 2026

Fellows

Chartered ABS Fellowships are awarded to individuals who have made an outstanding and sustained contribution to our mission to provide support for the UK's business schools. Fellows are nominated from academia and from those we engage from fields such as industry and public policy.

Current and past Chartered ABS Fellows are:

  • Professor Georgina Andrews

  • Professor Sir George Bain

  • Dr Emm Barnes

  • The Lord Bilimoria of Chelsea, CBE, DL

  • Professor Robert Blackburn

  • Professor Alistair Bruce

  • Professor Pawan Budhwar

  • Professor Debashis Chatterjee 

  • Professor Julia Clarke

  • Professor Simon Collinson

  • Professor Sue Cox

  • Professor Dame Sandra Dawson

  • Janine Ellis

  • Professor Sally Everett CMBE

  • Professor Jerry Forrester

  • Professor Arthur Francis

  • Dr Andrew Glanfield

  • Joe Hall

  • Adam Harper

  • Professor Jane Harrington

  • Professor Mark Hart

  • Dr Maria Hussain CMBE

  • Professor Mike Jackson OBE

  • Merrill Jones

  • Sandra Kerr CBE

  • Anne Kiem OBE

  • Professor Angus Laing

  • Professor Debra Leighton

  • Professor Andy Lock

  • Professor Peter McKiernan

  • Professor Timothy Mescon

  • Helen Miller

  • Stuart Miller

  • Dr Cathy Minett-Smith

  • Professor Huw Morris

  • James Norman

  • Professor Michael Osbaldeston OBE

  • Michelle Ovens CBE

  • Professor Andrew Pettigrew

  • Ann Ridley

  • Professor John Saunders

  • Professor Adam Shore

  • Jonathan Slack

  • Professor David Sweeney CBE

  • Professor Howard Thomas

  • Professor Robin Wensley

  • Paula Whitehouse

  • Professor Jean Woodall

  • Professor Baback Yazdani

  • Rt Hon The Lord Young of Graffham CH

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Opinion Student Recruitment

Business school induction should start with flourishing, not retention

Business school induction should be about more than retaining students. In this opinion piece, Andrew Doyle MBA, CMBE, Associate Dean of Education & Student Experience, challenges universities to look beyond continuation metrics and consider how induction can help students flourish.

14th October 2026
Opinion International

Beyond Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL): Building capacity for global curricula

Afzal explores how universities can move beyond individual international initiatives such as COIL towards building the institutional capacity needed for meaningful, inclusive and sustainable internationalised curricula.

12th October 2026
Opinion EDI

Inclusive Assessments: Are we on the right track?

Professor Geethanjali Selvaretnam & Dr Lovleen Kushwah explore the myths and pitfalls around inclusive assessment, challenging assumptions about diversity, authenticity and standardisation. They consider how greater flexibility, student agency and co-creation can help create more inclusive assessment practices and learning ecosystems.

7th October 2026