Teaching and Learning at WBS

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Transformational learning is fundamental to who we are

We deliver transformational learning experiences that are interdisciplinary, research-led and grounded in real-world insight, enabling you to make a meaningful difference in your chosen field.

We help you connect theory with practice in ways that feel immediate, and relevant, engaging with industry experts, and delivering through state-of-the-art pedagogy and educational technology, alongside world class research. We enable your learning through live business challenges, and direct exposure to how organisations are evolving, equipping you not just for the workplace today, but for the one you’ll help shape in the future.

Business, but not as usual

At WBS, learning is never detached from the real world. Faculty work with industry leaders, entrepreneurs and practitioners to bring real, current business challenges into the classroom. You’ll test ideas, challenge assumptions and apply what you learn in conditions that mirror the ones you’ll work in.

Together, these learning experiences create an environment where ideas are applied and relevant, so that you leave with the confidence to act, not just the knowledge to analyse.

Our accolades

Top Russell Group Business School for Student Satisfaction

National Student Survey (NSS) 2025

Gold Award in the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF 2023)

The Office for Students (OfS)

Best Digital Transformation Award at the AMBA & BGA

Excellence Awards 2025

Learning built around you

We’re deeply committed to inclusive, personalised learning. We offer choice and flexibility in our programmes, enabling you to tailor your learning journey towards your future career goals through a choice of electives, specialisms and course pathways.

Our inclusive approach also ensures all students can participate, contribute and succeed. Through tech-enhanced learning, academic breadth and applied project work, you can shape your time at WBS to drive your aspirations forward.

Innovative pedagogy

Explore the thinking, research and tools that shape learning at WBS.

Impactful Learning

Impactful Learning

Explore how we design experiences that put you in the room with real challenges, building the judgement and confidence to turn what you know into what you can do.

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Research-informed learning

Research-informed learning

Discover how we constantly evolve our learning through cutting-edge disciplinary and pedagogic research, evolving what we teach as well as how we deliver it.

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Immersive Environments

Immersive Environments

See how technology expands the learning experience from SmartStage® teaching to immersive environments and AI-supported learning, helping students engage with new ideas.

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See our learning in action

Meet some of the people shaping learning at WBS. Through research, real-world insight and industry experience, they bring new thinking into learning activities and challenge our students to see problems differently.

Real time news as a teaching tool

Real time news as a teaching tool

Discover how Laura Chamberlain brings real-time business stories into the classroom to challenge how students think and decide.

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Exploring AI in practice, not just theory

Exploring AI in practice, not just theory

Discover how Mo Moeini helps students test, challenge, and apply AI in real business situations.

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How strategy is shaped beyond the C-suite

How strategy is shaped beyond the C-suite

Discover how Christian Stadler challenges who gets to shape strategy and how it is built.

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Embedded employability

Employability is built into learning. For executives, already advanced in their careers, this means structured programmes to accelerate them to the next level through targeted interventions and coaching.

For our Undergraduate and Masters’ students, our PRACTICE framework is one way that we equip them with the skills, mindset and adaptability employers need now and in the future.

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Explore our range of courses

Every course at WBS connects academic insight with real-world action. Explore our undergraduate, Master’s, MBA and executive programmes.

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