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Emerging and Current Developments
Change is Coming to the Queens Professional MPA Program.
In 2015, I was asked to undertake a review of the PMPA program at the Queens School of Policy Studies. I am pleased to report that in the fall this year, we will be launching our changes to the PMPA program. This has been in development for some time. We have engaged PMPA alumni though and survey and interviews, as well as completing research on mid-career graduate programs in public administration around the world. The result was a paper prepared by Andrew Graham of our faculty that received Faculty Board approval earlier this year. We then moved ahead with getting the necessary courses approved to let us go forward. The main features are:
This builds on the strengths of our existing program. We believe that the in-person experience, drawing on the outstanding faculty who bring both theoretical and practical experience and in the unique Queen’s environment is the winning way for mid-career people to learn. These changes put us in the forefront in this area.
Change is Coming to the Queens Professional MPA Program.
In 2015, I was asked to undertake a review of the PMPA program at the Queens School of Policy Studies. I am pleased to report that in the fall this year, we will be launching our changes to the PMPA program. This has been in development for some time. We have engaged PMPA alumni though and survey and interviews, as well as completing research on mid-career graduate programs in public administration around the world. The result was a paper prepared by Andrew Graham of our faculty that received Faculty Board approval earlier this year. We then moved ahead with getting the necessary courses approved to let us go forward. The main features are:
- Strengthening the cohort model by making it possible to complete all course requirements within the program.
- A stronger focus on building leadership competencies, recognizing that this is a key element of our Mission.
- A stronger emphasis on experiential learning and application of policy and analysis to real world experience.
- A full course structure with two exciting elements:
- A three-day leadership-focused half course at the beginning of each of the two Fall and Winter terms, and
- A Team Integration Project in the Fall of the third year that will bring together in a team project the learnings of the program.
- Degree completion in 28 months and fully on-site.
This builds on the strengths of our existing program. We believe that the in-person experience, drawing on the outstanding faculty who bring both theoretical and practical experience and in the unique Queen’s environment is the winning way for mid-career people to learn. These changes put us in the forefront in this area.
Sir Humphry and the professors: What Does Whitehall want from academics?
The University of Manchester - Colin Talbot and partners - have released a very interesting study of how senior civil servants regard academic input into policy making. Most revealing in all of this is how research and policy studies affect how policy makers think and how much they reach out or react to studies in place. The conclusions are of worth, especially those about how senior public servants pick up the ideas and information that inform their work. You can access it at http://www.policy.manchester.ac.uk/media/projects/policymanchester/1008_Policy@Manchester_Senior_Civil_Servants_Survey_v4(1).pdf
The University of Manchester - Colin Talbot and partners - have released a very interesting study of how senior civil servants regard academic input into policy making. Most revealing in all of this is how research and policy studies affect how policy makers think and how much they reach out or react to studies in place. The conclusions are of worth, especially those about how senior public servants pick up the ideas and information that inform their work. You can access it at http://www.policy.manchester.ac.uk/media/projects/policymanchester/1008_Policy@Manchester_Senior_Civil_Servants_Survey_v4(1).pdf