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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
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Business schools: delivering value to local and regional economies
12th September 2016
This report evidences the contribution business schools make through collaborative working with companies small and large, LEPs, government, and with other institutions and across disciplines. The report is the outcome of work conducted by the Chartered ABS Delivering Value Taskforce led by Mike Blackburn (Chair, Manchester LEP) and Professor Ellie Hamilton (Lancaster University Management School). The report provides recommendations for stakeholders to build on the work in order to encourage even greater productivity and growth across all regions of the UK.