Credentialling or learning? Why not both?

This roundtable invites participants to critically explore the uneasy relationship between credentialling and learning in contemporary business education. As employability agendas, micro-credentials, stackable pathways and GenAI increasingly frame degrees as labour-market signals, educators face persistent tensions between efficiency, signalling and transformative learning. This session creates space for collective reflection on what is being valued, rewarded and marginalised in current teaching practices. Rather than offering solutions or best practice, the roundtable surfaces dilemmas, contradictions and unresolved questions, inviting participants to consider whether ‘both’ credentialling and learning is achievable, or whether this balance demands more explicit recognition and reflection within business schools.