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From placement to project: making experiential learning a shared responsibility

Work placements and applied projects offer valuable experience. Research into online reflection highlights how business schools can support the conversations that help students make sense of what they learn.  What if students are gaining valuable experience on placements and projects, but have few chances to help each other make sense of what they encounter?

2nd November 2026
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From Higher Education to Sustainable Work: Closing the Neurodivergent Graduate Gap

Graduate capability does not automatically translate into access to sustainable work. Neurodivergent students can be disadvantaged by recruitment conventions, ambiguous expectations, narrow definitions of professionalism and careers support built around a single model of communication and self-presentation. 

This CMBE Community Meeting, with Robert Annis, examines how business schools can prepare students for employment without teaching them simply to mask or conform—and how stronger employer partnerships can reduce barriers at both sides of the transition. 

For this session, the emphasis is practical, evidence-informed and relevant to the realities of business-school education. Participation from colleagues with lived experience is welcomed, without expectation to disclose. 

This event is a CMBE Community Meeting and is open to CMBE Subscribers only.

To register, please select the "register" button. This will ask you complete your details. Please then select "pay by card" where you will enter your email address but not be charged (this event is free to attend).

Facilitator

Robert Annis

Co-Founder of NEURO – the Neurodiversity, Empowerment, Understanding and Resilience Organisation

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