Executive Education Symposium: Innovations in flexible learning

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The 2025 Chartered ABS Executive Education Symposium brings together directors, heads, and senior managers of executive and professional education from business schools and universities across the UK. In a collaborative environment, the Symposium will explore how institutions can design flexible and modular provision that meets evolving employer needs, aligns with policy and funding priorities, and achieves financial sustainability.

Through expert panels, best practice showcases, and an interactive design workshop, participants will gain fresh insights into how executive and professional education can innovate in response to growing competition, rapidly changing learner expectations, and new opportunities in funding and recognition.

By the end of this Symposium, participants will have:

• Deepened their insight into how shifting employer expectations, evolving policy priorities, and funding reforms are shaping demand for modular and flexible executive and professional education

• Strengthened their understanding of sustainable business models, with enhanced perspectives on how to balance financial resilience, competitiveness, and innovation in a crowded marketplace

• Expanded their knowledge of leading-edge practice in personalised, stackable, and employer co-designed pathways, drawing on case studies from across the UK.

• Sharpened their ability to evaluate recognition mechanisms – including accreditation, micro-credentials, CPD points, and digital badges – and how these influence perceptions of value among employers and learners

• Enhanced their capacity to apply sector-wide insights to their own institutional context, generating actionable ideas and commitments for future practice