#17 Connecting Legal Education (CLE)

In this episode of Assessment in Focus, host Ishan Kolhatkar sits down with Dr. Alison Purvis, Associate Dean for Learning, Teaching, and Student Success at Sheffield Hallam University.

Bringing decades of higher education leadership and sector-level experience with Jisc and the OfS, Alison breaks down the critical boundaries between using AI for learning enhancement versus relying on it for high-stakes academic judgment.

In this episode of Assessment in Focus, host Ishan Kolhatkar sits down with Julian Rawel, Director of MBA Programmes at the University of Edinburgh Business School.

The episode covers how business schools must protect their core tradition of providing a space for students to step back, discuss, and reflect on ideas without the immediate pressure of workplace deliverables while adopting AI for practical, pedigogical purposes.

Host Ishan Kolhatkar sits down with Professor Chie Adachi, Dean for Digital Education and Interim Academic Director for the Centre of Excellence in AI in Education at Queen Mary University of London.

For centuries, Western higher education has treated the written essay as the ultimate hallowed turf for demonstrating knowledge. But in the era of GenAI where text generation is common, is our obsession with writing actually holding students back from developing true, human-centered capabilities?