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…

Despite the amount of published research on the use of text-based computer-mediated communication (CMC) in second language acquisition (SLA), very little attention has been paid to voice-based CMC (audioconferencing and videoconferencing) and to how it compares with the better known text-based CMC modes. This chapter investigates and compares the…

Provides a historical background of Canadian graduate education programs in library and information studies, including the roles of McGill University and the University of Toronto; summer programs; master's programs; two-year master's programs; doctoral programs; accreditation; and comparisons with developments in the United States, Great Britain,…