FT article on management education by Professor Hanlon
‘It's all the fault of the timetable and textbook’
Financial Times p.15
School of Business and Management: Professor Gerard Hanlon
Professor Hanlon writes about a crisis in management education and blames the “textbook and the academic timetable”. He says that these issues must be addressed to avoid any future economic meltdown and to retain some creative learning in the UK. The setup of the academic calendar in the UK is overly-defined and to combat this he says: “Business schools, I suggest, should be bold and ambitious, use this array of academic material, reject the textbook and discourage the mass produced, de-skilled student. Instead they should nurture risk-taking, innovation, confidence and an appreciation of complexity in their faculty and their student body.”
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