Opinion Learning & Teaching

Reassessing the essay: Relevance, realism, and resilience in the age of AI

Given how much HE is changing with more focus on vocational relevance, widening participation, and technological disruption, is the traditional essay still pulling its weight?

30th October 2025

Guildhall School of Business & Law, London Metropolitan University

The Guildhall School of Business and Law's mission is to be leading high-quality and impactful research that creates social value across the fields of business and management, law and translation, interpreting and applied linguistics.

Our inclusive approach supports a range of research approaches, including those focused on knowledge exchange and learning and teaching scholarship. A common theme across research and knowledge exchange in the school is a focus on social value, social justice and aligned with the wider London Met strategic aim of empowering London.