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Academic Executive Programs in Public Administration and Management: Some Variety across Europe
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Reichard, Christoph – Teaching Public Administration, 2017
Universities and other higher education institutions in Europe offer a vast and increasing number of academic degree programs in the broad field of Public Administration. A subset of these programs is those offering postgraduate degrees to experienced students being already employed by public or private organisations. These executive programs are…
Descriptors: Public Administration Education, Foreign Countries, Management Development, Masters Programs
Are Asian Public Affairs Students Different? Comparing Job Sector Attitudes and Sector Preference between Public Affairs Students at an Asian and Dutch University
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van der Wal, Zeger; Mussagulova, Assel – Journal of Public Affairs Education, 2020
Public affairs programs aim to prepare students for public service roles by teaching certain skills and reinforcing prosocial motivations. Studies provide mixed results as to whether these aims are met. What we do not know is whether public administration and public affairs programs in Asia attract students different in their job sector attitudes…
Descriptors: Asians, Public Affairs Education, Public Administration Education, Foreign Countries
Public-Private Partnerships for Skills Development: A Governance Perspective. Volume II. Case Studies
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van der Meer, Marc; Arribas, J. Manuel Galvin; Petherbridge, Robert; Pastore, Lavinia; Corvo, Luigi; Avagyan, Aram – European Training Foundation, 2020
"Public-Private Partnerships for Skills Development" discusses the concept of public-private partnership (PPP) and its application in the domain of skills development. Volume I proposes a three-dimension typology of PPPs for skills development, and identifies common elements and governance characteristics of these PPPs. Volume II…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Job Skills, Skill Development, Partnerships in Education
Career Aspirations: mba.com Prospective Students Survey 2019. Market Intelligence
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Graduate Management Admission Council, 2019
Each month, the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) surveys a random sample of individuals who three months prior registered on mba.com--the GMAC™ website for prospective graduate business students. Their survey responses provide an inside look into the decision-making process of people currently considering applying to a graduate…
Descriptors: Occupational Aspiration, Graduate Students, Masters Programs, Business Administration Education
Reflecting the Context of MPA Education in the Time of Economic Crisis in Public Sectors in Britain and the Netherlands
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Oldfield, Chrissie; Berg, Mireille van den – Teaching Public Administration, 2013
The reality of the economic crisis and subsequent cuts in public sector funding in some European countries means that the context for public management education is significantly changing. In a period of economic constraint there is the obvious questioning of the cost of public management education programmes and even more of their relevance and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Masters Programs, Public Administration Education, Public Sector
Performances and Spending Efficiency in Higher Education: A European Comparison through Non-Parametric Approaches
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Agasisti, Tommaso – Education Economics, 2011
The objective of this paper is an efficiency analysis concerning higher education systems in European countries. Data have been extracted from OECD data-sets (Education at a Glance, several years), using a non-parametric technique--data envelopment analysis--to calculate efficiency scores. This paper represents the first attempt to conduct such an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Public Sector, Data Analysis