Decreasing Willingness to Study Public Administration Programmes: An Experience from Masaryk University
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| Year of publication | 2014 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy : the Network of Institutes and Schools of Public Administration in Central and Eastern Europe |
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| Citation | |
| Field | Management and administrative |
| Keywords | Public Administration; Study Programme; Willighness to Study |
| Description | The paper focuses on the diminishing willingness to choose a PA study programme among potential students. We believe that the attractiveness of a study programme and consequently a certain level of selectivity is a key factor that has to be considered individually for any evaluated (accredited) programme. Both the content of the programme and its mission ought to reflect not only international standards, the regional specificity of the Public Administration system and its needs in a particular country. It also has to cope at least partly with potential and current students’ expectations and interests. Although we are aware that the lack of demand for PA programmes could be a quite isolated phenomenon within European countries, we believe we are not the only university attempting to improve the quality of our PA programmes under such inconvenient circumstances. Sharing our experiences and the (hopefully) following discussion will help us to design appropriate strategies to overcome this issue. We present here an experience from the Faculty of Economics and Administration, Masaryk University. Using the internal data from the admission procedure, we compare the demand for the PA undergraduate programme to learning outcomes and graduates’ profile. |