The future of managerial education

The book “Shut down the business school. What’s wrong with management education” by Martin Parker (2018) professor who had worked for 20 years at Bristol University has started an important debate. The author claims that business schools need to stop teaching most of the standard curriculum. I would argue stronger – in the era of digitalization and internet they need to change the way of teaching. As an example: Student Teacher Evaluations (SET) should not be treated as measures of teaching quality because: (1) it encourages students to view themselves as customers/consumers of education, while the quality of their learning depends both on their and teacher’s efforts; (2) as it was shown in the conducted by Michałowicz (2016) under my supervision analyses of more than 130 thousand of SET forty percent of students NEVER deliver their feedback via SET; (3) that younger lecturers contrary to old ones believe that students reciprocate good grades by giving the teacher good evaluation (Michałowicz, op.cit. ). As a consequence teachers could inflate their demands and grades; (4) the metanalysis conducted by Uttl, B., White, C., A., Gonzalez D. W. (2017) has shown that students do not learn more from highly rated professors. There was no relationship between SET and students achievement. Students expect to receive practical knowledge. They do not realize that the results of the managerial research conducted in the “ceteris paribus” paradigm are difficult to use in practice and in teaching.