Assignment Remit
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Programme Title
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Business Management Suite of Programmes
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Module Title
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Management Education and Learning A
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Module Code
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08 33981
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Assignment Title
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Coursework 2: Literature Review
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Level
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LC
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Weighting
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80%
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Deadline Date & Time
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December 2025
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12pm
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Feedback Post Date
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21st working day after the deadline date
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Assignment Format
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Essay
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Assignment Length
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1500 words including references
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Submission Format
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Online
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Individual
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Module Learning Outcomes:
This assignment is designed to assess the following module learning outcomes. Your submission will be marked using the Grading Criteria given in the section below.
LO 1. Understand what management learning and reflective practice is and apply it to students’ own personal, academic and professional development;
LO 2. Identify relevant academic literature and practice critical academic thinking;
LO 3. Produce high quality academic work, which conform. to formal academic requirements.
Assignment:
Coursework 2 – An essay/literature review on Management Learning and Education
The objective of this coursework is for you to engage with the current debate on the purpose of Management Education and Learning and reflect on how it can/should support your development as a Management student and future practitioner. To do so, we ask you to undertake a very short literature review on the topic to critically assess the argument of a key text: Starkey, K., & Tempest, S. (2025). The business school and the end of history: Reimagining management education. Academy of Management Learning & Education, 24(1): 111-125.
For this assignment, you need to undertake the following tasks:
1. Read the indicated article, and briefly summarise it;
2. Choose one of the following academic journal papers that discusses the notion of Management Education and Learning, what it is or should be, its purpose and/or its criticisms. Critically compare and contrast its ideas with those of Starkey & Tempest (2025):
· Thomas, H., Lee, M., & Wilson, A. (2014). Future scenarios for management education. Journal of Management Development, 33(5), 503–519. https://doi.org/10.1108/jmd-02-2014-0018
· Kitchener, M., Levitt, T., & Thomas, L. (2022). Towards purposeful business schools: Deepening and broadening external engagement. Futures, 144, 103042. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2022.103042
· Kitchener, M. (2024). Re‐Purposing business Schools: potential, progress, and precarity. Journal of Management Studies. https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.13171
· Colombo, L. A., Moser, C., Muehlfeld, K., & Joy, S. (2024). Sowing the Seeds of Change: Calling for a Social–Ecological approach to management learning and education. Academy of Management Learning and Education, 23(2), 207–213. https://doi.org/10.5465/amle.2024.0086
3. Finish your review with a short critical reflection of what you have learnt from doing this review exercise & what your recommendation would be with regards to the purpose of Management Education and Learning and how it can/should support your development as a Management student and future practitioner, and/or the wider business school context.
To help you critically analyse the Starkey & Tempest (2025) paper and the other paper(s) that you choose to analyse in depth within the word count for this assignment, the minimum of references that you need for this assignment is 2 including the indicated text/article. However, we would recommend that you use a couple of other references to substantiate some of your analysis and your critical thinking. You can take these references from the suggested papers, or from other sources you may find autonomously. You must use the Harvard referencing style. when referring to sources in your work.
The word count for this assignment is 1,500 words maximum including your reference list.
Grading Criteria / Marking Rubric
Your submission will be graded according to the following criteria:
1. Understanding
2. Structure
3. Supporting Evidence
4. Reflection
5. Style.
See the marking rubric at the end of the remit for more information on how your work will be marked and graded.