CEEMAN, an international management development association, is organising its “International Management Teachers Academy” in Bled, Slovenia, from 8 to 20 June 2014.
The programme targets management educators and looks to provide an “opportunity for young faculty to develop their curricula, course design, teaching materials and particularly teaching skills and methods”.
For more information about the programme, please see the CEEMAN website. More...

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