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Teaching management so that it sticks

By Dr. S. Thowseaf··5 min read

Rows of empty wooden seats in a university lecture hall

Postgraduate students forget frameworks within weeks. What they retain are the decisions they had to defend out loud.

Open with a live problem

Begin each session with a real situation that has no obvious answer — a pricing call, a sourcing failure, a compliance deadline. Theory then arrives as a tool rather than a topic.

Limit the frameworks

Two frameworks per session, taught well, beat six taught quickly. Depth converts to recall; coverage does not.

Assess judgement, not recall

Ask students to justify a course of action with the evidence available, including its weaknesses. That is the skill practice actually rewards.