Implications of the South African higher education qualifications framework for the Master of Public Administration
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Wessels, J.S.
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2009-10
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Article
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en
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This article describes the implications of the South African Higher Education
Qualifications Framework (HEQF) for the structuring of the Master of Public
Administration (MPA) that are offered at South African universities. The
MPA programmes in South Africa are compared with the MPA programmes that
are offered in the United States of America (USA). The research shows that not all
the South African MPA programmes meet the HEQF’s requirements for a course
work master’s degree. Most of the MPA programmes will therefore have to be
adapted to meet the requirements of the HEQF. The requirements of the HEQF
for a course work master’s degree will give the South African MPA programmes
a higher research component than the MPA programmes that are offered in the
USA. The implications of this will be that the research component of South African
programmes with below average research components will have to be increased.
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Wessels, JS 2009, 'Implications of the South African higher education qualifications framework for the Master of Public Administration', Journal of Public Administration, vol. 44, no.3, pp. 1-14.
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Journal of Public Administration
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0036-0767