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
Research & Analysis Leadership

Reflections on the role of the business school dean

2nd December 2015

The current drive for inter-disciplinarity, impact, and greater embeddedness in the university and society through activities such as entrepreneurship provide business school deans with more opportunities for collaboration and mutual intellectual exchanges beyond merely providing financial cross subsidies to other departments. This report provides insights into the motivations, expectations, and challenges of university-based business school deans.


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