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Train the Russian Trainer

5-10-2008

Last month, we paid a visit to our Russian partner: Taganrog Technological Institute (TTI). TTI is part of the Southern Federal University (SFU), a cooperation between 21 universities in the Caucasus in South-Russia. Last year we signed our cooperation agreement. The purpose of our cooperation is to provide Russian TTI and SFU students in the so-called Magister programme our Master programme. We will start with the MBA in Business & Marketing, and the MBE and other MBA programmes will follow thereafter.  The first group of students will start their MBA in Business & Marketing course in February 2009.

The execution of the Master modules will be done by Russian professors and tutors. Via Vince delivers the educational concept and didactics. Quality care is of utmost importance and therefore we have made agreements about quality measurement. This first step in this process exists of a train-the-trainer programme in October, which will take place in the Via Vinci  head office in the Netherlands. A group of 12 Russian professors will be trained in educational concept, didactics, attitudes and working with students during a one-week training programme. In January 2009 another train-the-trainer programme will follow. This time the professors will be trained extensively in the content of the five modules for the first year of the MBA programme. Of course the reader will be kept informed about the progress!