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A sign of the times

By Della Bradshaw

Published: September 24 2008 10:15 | Last updated: September 24 2008 10:15

Most European business schools pride themselves on providing the facilities to help their students learn additional languages. Grenoble Ecole de Management in France has gone one step further: its students can now learn sign language as part of the curriculum.

The sign language training takes 72 hours and is intended to give students the opportunity to understand the issues of facing handicapped people in the workplace as part of Grenoble’s agenda for intercultural management.

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