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Our blog features opinion*, analysis and case studies from across the business school sector, plus contributions from the Chartered ABS and external commentators. Each blog has a comments box on it so you can post your comments.

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You won’t be able to rely on a calculator every day!

In the late 80’s, as a young and enthusiastic student, I vividly recall moaning to my mathematics teacher about why I couldn't use a calculator to complete my exam. The teacher's…

Three top tips for teaching with breakout rooms

The use of breakout rooms in online learning has followed the trajectory of a rollercoaster ride over the last few years.  During the pandemic their use rose steeply, with many…

Has ChatGPT signalled the end of assessment as we know it?

You have heard about ChatGPT. Of course you have. Since its launch in November 2022 by the San Francisco-based Open AI, the state-of-the-art chatbot has captured the public’s…

Are the UK’s new Investment Zones an opportunity for business schools?

Like many other sectors of the economy, our universities are operating in a challenging landscape, yet continue to provide research and education at a scale and quality comparable…

Generative AI in business schools: Embrace or avoid?

ChatGPT is an application of the latest version of GPT-3 (Generative Pretrained Transformer 3), a state-of-the-art large language processing model. Unlike traditional chatbots, the…

Buildings, community, and building communities

This week I attended the Professional Managers Annual Conference (PMAC 2023) held by the Chartered Association of Business Schools. It was a gathering of senior professional…

DEI for Business and Management – Call for book contributors

Call for contributors to new book: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion for Business and Management Editors: Professor Sally Everett and Ian Hill Publishers: SAGE…

Strategies for developing academic identity

“Listen to Jacqueline", was what I told my LinkedIn followers, who might be considering making the transition from business practice to academia. Unfortunately, Jacqueline’s…

Developing new digital employability skills through online collaboration

Training and supporting university students, and in particular, business school students to become global ready graduates has long been regarded an integral part of the curriculum.…

Why don’t they come?

When I was at university, for four years including my Master’s, I wasn’t a particularly good student. I tended to leave everything until the last moment and didn’t always…

It takes two: Co-leadership in British higher education

Lennon and McCartney, Victoria and Albert, Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett… sometimes the best things come in twos. Take one person away from the duo and somehow both are…

Dare to evolve: Reassessing assessments in business schools

As business school educators, we have a great opportunity to help students  obtain their most desirable post-study career move, and enhance the careers of those already in…

Using pedagogical research to help develop academic identity

All business schools employ individuals who have made the move from practitioner, to academic. Very often these individuals have attained seniority in their professional lives, and…

Auditing the Auditors: An evaluation of the REF2021 output results for UoS 16

The UK has recently concluded the Research Excellence Framework (REF2021) exercise, involving 157 universities, 76,132 academic staff and 185,594 research outputs. The nationally…

Dynamic Conversations: Peering into the future of business education

Davenport and Patil (2012) writing in the Harvard Business described data science as the “Sexiest Job of the 21st Century”. For many business schools these types of comments…

Dynamic Conversations: Embedding data literacy throughout the undergraduate business curriculum

Dr Liz Cunningham of Newcastle Business School concentrates on the problem of the curriculum gap between Level 4 and Level 6 undergraduate degrees. Business undergraduates struggle…

Dynamic Conversations: Business analytics in management education through professional development modules

In this written piece, Dr Anabela Soares of Bristol Business School considers the necessity of ingraining business analytics across Business & Management programmes, to prepare…

Dynamic Conversations: Data savviness for business school students

Businesses are now inundated with data, both that which they have accumulated themselves, and that which is available from a variety of external sources.The proliferation of these…

Maintaining the balance between student mobility and sustainability

Internationalisation of the student experience – both for students originating from ‘home’ as well as those coming from ‘overseas’ – has been, and will continue to be,…

How enterprise educators can benefit from changes to Advance HE’s Professional Standards Framework

Updating a longstanding framework is never an easy task, however, I have found the UK Professional Standards Framework (PSF) to be both very helpful and easy to follow. Whilst…