Date & Time: 10 September 2026, 12:30 UTC (View Local Time)
Hosts: AIB United Kingdom & Ireland Chapter and AIB Teaching & Education Shared Interest Group
Point of Contact: Stefan Zagelmeyer (S.Zagelmeyer@manchester.ac.uk)
Event Overview: International business and management students now operate in a fast-moving, volatile and contested information environment. Geopolitical disruption, disinformation, platform-driven attention cycles and declining trust in public knowledge make it increasingly difficult to separate signal from noise. At the same time, sanctions, industrial policy, technology restrictions, supply-chain disruption and political risk must often be interpreted in real time, before academic research has fully caught up. As a result, keeping IB curricula current and developing students’ information literacy, including their ability to source, evaluate, triangulate and communicate evidence amid competing narratives and contested facts, have become central educational challenges.
This webinar will address both challenges. Andrew Jack, Global Education Editor at the Financial Times, will discuss which IB topics now need reframing in response to rapid geopolitical change and introduce FT resources for educators, including Ask FT, Professor Picks, mini cases, and wider FT coverage, as practical tools for keeping courses current. He will also compare journalistic and academic sources as forms of evidence and explain how quality control works in professional journalism. The presentation will be followed by a moderated discussion with substantial time for audience questions, including:
-Which IB topics, concepts or case logics may now mislead students and therefore need reframing?
-How can high-quality journalism and curated media resources be used in IB teaching to build capability rather than simply add current examples?
-How do journalistic and academic sources differ as evidence, and how should students learn to assess and triangulate them?
-How can information literacy be embedded and assessed as a core IB curriculum capability?
The session is designed as a guest presentation followed by a moderated audience Q&A, aiming to leave participants with a set of practical, immediately usable resources and ideas for keeping their IB teaching current and credible.
GUEST SPEAKER
Andrew Jack is Global Education Editor at the Financial Times, where he covers education internationally and leads the FT’s free access programmes for schools and universities. He has been with the FT since 1990 and has held senior editorial and reporting roles, including head of the curated content team, pharmaceuticals correspondent, Moscow bureau chief, Paris correspondent and financial correspondent. He is the author of Inside Putin’s Russia and The French Exception, and regularly provides commentary for the BBC and other media.
HOST AND MODERATOR
Stefan Zagelmeyer is Reader in Comparative and International Business at the University of Manchester and Teaching and Education Representative on the AIB UK&I executive board. His related blogpost, “Navigating Business Information at Speed: Independent Journalism, Ask FT and Information Literacy in Management Education” , examines the role of independent, high-quality journalism as a form of evidence in management education.