Objectives of the Project: Governance Matters
The overall objective of the project - Governance Matters: Assessing, Diagnosing, and Addressing Challenges of Governance in Nepal is to improve the capacity for teaching and research on governance by bringing students, faculty, and academics /scholars in contact with the frontiers of research in this field. This is to be achieved through the following sub-objectives:
Governance Matters: Assessing, Diagnosing, and Addressing Challenges of Governance in Nepal
Governance Matters: Assessing, Diagnosing, and Addressing Challenges of Governance in Nepal is a Joint Project between the Dept of Public Administration, University of Bergen, Norway and the Central Dept of Public Administration, Tribhuban University, Nepal
Bachelor of Public Administration (BPA)
Bachelor of Public Administration (BPA) as an academic program of Tribhuvan University (TU) is created to prepare students to foster the career in public affairs management. The graduates of the BPA program would be able to resolve societal challenges related to public affairs in general and particularly good governance, project management, development management, human resource management and leadership development and the local governance. In addition, BPA provides in-depth knowledge of public administration focusing on social responsibility that has to bear by middle level professionals.
This program fulfills the gaps by developing middle level professionals required in public organizations. In general, students will learn to oversee a diverse workforce and community in public, private and non-profit organization. Students will enhance their knowledge and skills to manage the mix of both local and regional needs in order to achieve optimal results within a multifaceted range of governmental regulations and the political process.
Graduates of the BPA will be able to utilize their knowledge in a variety of areas in state and local government, public and federal agencies, and private and public organizations including non-profits sectors both in Nepal and worldwide. Thus the BPA degree promotes the mission of the university in striving to engender intellectual curiosity and critical thinking needed in local, national and the global community. BPA aims to enable students to develop a greater awareness and responsiveness to fellow members within and outside of our borders. Public Administration is a field in which these skills are urgently needed on a daily basis.