School of Government Management

The School of Government Management strives to equip students with the relevant knowledge, insight and skills for a career in the public sector. Therefore, the School offers undergraduate and postgraduate programmes that examine the management and development challenges facing South Africa in the 21st century.

In the nature of the professional task of the School of Government Management, it supports any initiative to enhance excellence in public service delivery and to make the public sector more relevant for the needs of the South African community.

The contents of the programme in public management focused amongst others on the promotion and enhancement of comprehensive transparency, accountability, effective service delivery, freedom of action and democratic government and a development-orientated public sector.

This is then being realized by means of practice- and career-orientated training and research.

With our advanced M. Tech. and D. Tech. degree programmes, one of our objectives is to further equip public managers who have already proven themselves as above-average students and managers, as advanced role-players in the public sector.

These speciality-directed research degrees thus do not only require a thorough knowledge of the subject in which the student is specialising, but also a particular ability in research techniques and methods. Therefore these candidates, with their research background, should also be able to come forward with new thoughts, for example, to the advantage of the government institution concerned and for the general support and development of excellence in the public sector.

Programme

National Diploma: Public Management Baccalaureus Technologiae: Public Management Magister Technologiae: Public Management Doctor Technologiae: Public Management