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Broucker, Bruno – Teaching Public Administration, 2015
In times of financial and economic crises, public organizations seem to cut their budgets for training and education, especially when the impact of a programme is questioned. Therefore, PA programmes need to clarify what impact can be expected and what individual and organizational processes are influencing the impact of a PA programme on the…
Descriptors: Public Administration Education, Public Sector, Program Effectiveness, Knowledge Level
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van Jaarsveldt, Lisa C.; de Vries, Michiel S.; Kroukamp, Hendri J. – Teaching Public Administration, 2019
The decolonialisation of the higher education curriculum and free higher education were two of the burning issues during student protests that erupted across universities in South Africa at the end of 2015. Although the president announced free higher education in December 2017, the country can scarcely afford it, with many universities already…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Foreign Policy, Social Action
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Knutas, Agneta – Policy Futures in Education, 2017
The Nordic educational welfare model was implemented to support social justice and equal opportunities for all. After the fall of the Berlin wall the welfare model is weakened due to influences from international and global trends. It is found that with the introduction of new public management steering of public welfare and the decentralization…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Neoliberalism, Rural Schools, Public Administration
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Bright, Leonard – Teaching Public Administration, 2018
Scholars have long suggested that the degree orientations of public administration programs were related to the attitudes and behaviors of students, even though empirical research had failed to confirm this relationship. The purpose of this study was to re-examine this question from the standpoint of perceptions of fit. Using a sample of…
Descriptors: Public Administration Education, Graduate Students, Degree Requirements, Student Surveys
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Sarrico, Cláudia S.; Alves, André A. – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2016
Higher education accreditation frameworks typically consider academic staff quality a key element. This article embarks on an empirical study of what academic staff quality means, how it is measured, and how different aspects of staff quality relate to each other. It draws on the relatively nascent Portuguese experience with study programme…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Research, Experiments, Data Collection
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Barber, Stephen; Luke, Peter – Teaching Public Administration, 2016
Research can be a powerful tool informing public administration teaching. This article takes the distinctive approach of exploring its use through the prism of the research itself by considering 10 publications by the article's authors. The existing literature revolves around students learning about the craft of research or research findings. By…
Descriptors: Public Administration Education, Research Utilization, Relevance (Education), Instructional Innovation
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Zhu, Yanhan; Wu, Juan – Higher Education Studies, 2014
The innovation is the soul of one nation making progresses. To build an innovative country, we need to train more innovative talents who is capable of public administration. The innovative talents training of public administration undergraduate faces a lot of problems, such as the influences of traditional culture, the constraint of education…
Descriptors: Public Administration, Public Administration Education, Talent Development, Undergraduate Students
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Oldfield, Chrissie – Teaching Public Administration, 2017
It is becoming apparent that the environment in which Executive Masters in Public Administration programmes operate has changed dramatically in the wake of economic crisis and subsequent cuts in public spending. Changes in the funding of public sector organisations has been compounded by a broader "crisis" in the wider public sector…
Descriptors: Public Administration Education, Masters Programs, Educational Change, Educational Needs
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Bright, Leonard – Teaching Public Administration, 2017
Many scholars have suggested that public service motivation (PSM) is a defining characteristic of public and non-profit employees. However, interest and motivation alone are not the sole determinates of success in any organization. Employees must also possess the knowledge and skills that will help them accomplish the difficult tasks that arise in…
Descriptors: Public Service, Public Administration Education, Student Satisfaction, Masters Programs
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Peters, Robert A.; Maatman, Janice – Teaching Public Administration, 2017
The economic, financial, and political trends such as stagnating standards of living, fiscal pressure, and an escalating mistrust of government were set in motion during the 1960s and 1970s. Due to the duration of the trends, the magnitude, but not the nature, of the challenges confronting the health care, nonprofit and public sectors has changed.…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Learning Strategies, Public Administration Education
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Bhiwajee, Soolakshna Lukea; Garavan, Thomas N. – European Journal of Training and Development, 2016
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to provide insights about the usefulness of management education for the public sector in the Republic of Mauritius, which embarked on reforms initiatives around two decades ago. In this context, public officers were encouraged to follow specialised management courses. However, as at date, there is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Empowerment, Government Employees, Public Sector
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O'Brien, Dave – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2015
No matter what the national context, the question of how to understand the impact of government programmes, particularly in terms of value for money, has emerged as a complex problem to be solved by social scientific management. This article engages with these trends in two ways. It focuses on the UK to understand how these tools and technologies…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Value Judgment, Culture, Public Policy
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Alford, John; Brock, Jonathan – Teaching Public Administration, 2014
Schools of public policy and administration are increasingly adopting interactive case teaching (long used in business schools) as one of their primary pedagogical methods -- not least because of its usefulness in both stimulating engagement by students and helping them turn that engagement into learning. This article and its companion piece…
Descriptors: Public Administration Education, Case Method (Teaching Technique), Instructional Materials, Teaching Methods
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Vinogradova, Marina V.; Babakaev, Sergy V.; Larionova, Anna A.; Kobyak, Marina V.; Layko, Mikhail Y. – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
The relevance of the topic is determined by the new challenges faced by the Russian state in modern conditions that have a significant impact on public administration, which entails the need for its comprehensive modernization. In this regard, this article is aimed at the disclosure of social and socio-cultural aspects of the modernization of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Administration, Development, Social Change
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Gerlach, John David – Journal of Political Science Education, 2016
As the American nonprofit sector continues to grow, so does interest in nonprofit management graduate education. MPA programs play a significant role in preparing students for work in the nonprofit field. This article examines nonprofit management as an area of graduate study, paying particular attention to how NASPAA-accredited MPA programs…
Descriptors: Nonprofit Organizations, Graduate Study, Management Development, Administrator Education
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