Post Graduate Programmes

Post Graduate Diploma (Public Policy & Governance)

Location: Hyderabad

School: School of Public Policy and Governance

Intake: 15

Description

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The Post Graduate programme in Public Policy and Governance offered by the School of Public Policy and Governance (SPPG) is a novel application-oriented course aligned with the National Education Policy (NEP), 2020. The programme provides interdisciplinary foundational training in Ethics and Policy, Economics (including big data analytics), Law, Political Science, and Sociology. It encourages students to be reflexive in developing institutional designs that can transform public services.

A multi-disciplinary curriculum and innovative pedagogy provides exciting educational opportunities for the students. The course combines theory with field-based learning and internships to enable students to look beyond conventional models and help then envision institutions for an equitable society. The rigours of the theoretical aspects of the course along with experiential learning transforms the learning experience. It mentors young minds to understand policy frameworks and situates them in the socio-political and economic contexts. Agility with data, both large datasets and micro data equips students to incubate new ideas and contribute to the policy processes. It empowers the students to become competent policy professionals and thought leaders with a robust understanding of the field realities.

Overview of the Programme

Through a corpus of courses, students undertake the study of policy institutions at the global and local levels. Another set of courses engages with policy designs, frameworks, and processes Finally, through the use and analysis of big and micro-data, the students are equipped to evaluate the impact of policy outcomes. The programme as a whole empowers the students to be reflexive in developing institutional designs that can transform public services

A special feature of the programme is to guide students to undertake Capstone Projects. Capstone Projects are promoted by the School through Public Policy and Good Governance Lab

Public Policy and Good Governance Labs:

The School facilitates Capstone Projects through partnerships with governmental agencies, private corporations, parastatal agencies, and nongovernment institutions. The MA-PPG students work directly with these to attain a first-hand understanding of policy-making while contributing through their own fresh ideas.

Innovative Pedagogy: Students are encouraged to contribute and participate in inclusive and engaged learning processes.

Outreach: Students are encouraged to put their policy research work in the public domain through journals, policy blogs, social media, newspaper articles etc.

Programme Outcomes:

• The students are able to acquire practical skills beyond classroom teaching and thereby facilitating the application of knowledge acquired in the class to concrete policy situations.

• The students undergo up-skilling that enables them to add value to their existing work

• The students are competent to engage with and address problems affecting contemporary policy concerns

• The students have the necessary skill sets and perspectives to work in a specialised professional capacity.

Who can apply:

• Graduates with a Bachelor’s degree or in the final year of graduation

• Development practitioners, policymakers, government line ministry staff and programme managers and NGO staff, staff from federations of community organisations or private sector organisations.

Employment opportunities

The SPPG has an excellent placement record. Alumni of the school work with ministries, departments, and institutions of Central, State and District Governments; Consulting firms like PWC, Deloitte, and KPMG etc.; Multilateral agencies such as UNDP, UNICEF, etc.; International organizations like the Clinton Foundation and national and international policy think tanks

Programme

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