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

Leeds Business School, Leeds Beckett University

We provide collaborative and practical learning to guide and encourage forward thinking graduates. Supporting businesses from creation to transformation and reinvention.

In the heart of our city's thriving financial and business district, we offer a range of innovative and varied courses covering subjects across the landscape of business. In order to succeed, we know that valuable experience is vital. That's why we provide our students with excellent technical facilities and the opportunity to build important relationships with established businesses and professionals.

We have an excellent reputation for the quality of our education, our commitment to research and knowledge exchange, and our impact on business growth and sustainability locally, nationally and internationally. As winners of the Small Business Charter Award, we're celebrated for our role in supporting small businesses, local economies, and student entrepreneurship.