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The chapter explores the development of management education in Slovenia and it focuses on its supply side and on distinctive features of higher education institutions that provide management education in Slovenia. It also discusses the demand for management education and explains the conditions for academic staff and requirements set by regulatory bodies.
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The Yugoslav socialist model of organizing the society and companies.
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The first two are leading providers of economic studies.
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The international business graduate program of the University of Ljubljana (Faculty of Economics) holds the European CeQuInt (Certificate for Quality in Internationalization ) certificate in the field of internationalization.
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IEDC-Bled School of Management started 30 years ago as a private institution devoted to executive education and this is still its focus.
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IEDC has 15 Alumni Clubs all over the world. The total number of participants since the establishment until today stands at more than 77,200 from 82 countries.
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Like the International Teachers Program (ITP), the IMTA is a two-week program that has been run since 2000. The IMTA focuses on the development of management professors for all CEEMAN members from the whole world by providing an outstanding program in teaching methodologies, thus contributing to pedagogical and research excellence. So far, 550 educators from 54 countries have taken part in it. The first week is devoted to teaching methodology. During the second week, the participants are taught a particular subject, such as leadership, strategy , marketing, finance, and business and society, or other subjects that participants would like to attend. Since each group consists of only 5–10 participants, this is an extraordinary opportunity to improve teaching skills.
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Due to negative demographic trends.
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IEDC-Bled School of Management leads this research in Slovenia.
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Purg, D., Braček Lalić, A. (2018). Higher Education in Management: The Case of Slovenia. In: Dameron, S., Durand, T. (eds) The Future of Management Education. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56104-6_5
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