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Jacobus S Wessels – Teaching Public Administration, 2024
Public administration managers are confronted with new and highly complex challenges emerging at a rapid rate. This situation requires a reimagining of public administration education to prepare public administration managers to capably deal with these challenges. While the Master of Public Administration (MPA) is globally used as vehicle for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Administration, Active Learning, Public Administration Education
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Lück, Jacqueline; McKenna, Sioux; Harran, Marcelle – Africa Education Review, 2020
Public Management and Public Administration are important professions for an emerging democracy such as South Africa. They operate as the interface between state and public and are responsible for enacting many of the government's policies and social initiatives. Concerns about a lack of capacity in the sector suggest that those in these roles may…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Administration, Public Administration Education, Higher Education
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Bilge, Semih – Journal of International Education and Leadership, 2015
Change and transformation in the understanding and definition of citizenship has led to the emergence of citizen-oriented public service approach. This approach also raised a new term and concept in the field of public budgeting because of the transformation in the processes of public budgeting: citizens' budget. The citizens' budget which seeks…
Descriptors: Budgets, Budgeting, Citizen Participation, Accountability
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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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Mncayi, Precious; Dunga, Steven Henry – Industry and Higher Education, 2016
Graduate unemployment is especially problematic in a country where much emphasis is placed on furthering academic studies for economic and personal rewards. This article investigates the relationship between career choice and unemployment length among graduates from a South African university. Data were collected by means of a survey questionnaire…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Unemployment, Least Squares Statistics, Majors (Students)