The Department of Public Administration, Unizik Awka
Review of Public Administration is a journal publication of the Department of Public Administration, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State, Nigeria. Public Administration is one of the academic departments of the University set up to train the much needed, academically-sound middle and high level manpower in administration and management in a fast developing economy like ours. To achieve this mandate, the department is poised to do all that it takes to produce the calibre of graduates that will hold their place anywhere in the world.
Philosophy of the Department
The need in contemporary Nigeria for component administrators in government and non-profit organizations is growing. Large, complex governmental organizations cannot function without administrators trained to rationally set goals and priorities, define and analyze complex problems, and generate solutions to these problems.
Our philosophy is to place on a robust Public Administration Curriculum, that teaches students the theory and principles required to enable them perform these complex functions effectively in any public or private sector bureaucracy in an ever changing and dynamic environment, bristling with development challenges, for the government and public sector bureaucrats, a significant element in ojur philosophy, is to make our students conscious of the key administrative, development, and public policy issues and problems in Nigeria, and to make them sensitive to the political and social contexts of these issues and problems. Lastly, we aim at producing competent, patriotic and result-oriented bureaucrats, whose overriding objective in the world of work, would be to serve the public interest.
Objectives of the Department
The Department run the following programmes: Bachelor of Science Degree (B.Sc), Postgraduate Diploma (PGD), Master of Science (M.Sc) , Master of Public Administration (MPA) and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D)
The programs except the PGD have the following objectives:
(a) To provide the students with a grounding in public administration theory, and management techniques that will enable them function effectively as administrators.
(b) To develop in our students good leadership qualities and encourage them to imbibe altruistic values for servicing the public interest.
(c) To broaden their perspectives and encourage them to acquire eclectic values in analyzing and seeking solutions to the problems which face our governments.
(d) To train students to be patriotic, courageous, innovative and self-reliant in their various positions as policy-makers in Nigeria of the 21st Century.
(e) The PGD programme is designed as a terminal programme on its own is a stepping stone to the main MPA programme. The programme content covers all aspects of public management.
