ABSTRACT This paper presents the main results of an interview survey of 50 teachers of part-time Management courses in 15 higher education institutions, conducted as part of a project on student perceptions of their learning environments in these courses. Staff felt part-time teaching was consistently undervalued by their institutions. Management teachers seemed particularly enthusiastic and committed to classroom practice, in ways directly to do with their practical experience of management itself. Major problems of academic freedom existed in some courses, and of fitting syllabus structure to the part-time mode in others. In addition, there were pervasive problems of staff and students' sense of cognitive dissonance between college and work. Staff perceptions of student problems did not match well with the students' own perceptions. Differences between types of institution, between levels of course, and between individual teachers were examined.