BEYOND ORION: A EUROPEAN DISTANCE MASTER'S DEGREE IN COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP
1996; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 21; Issue: 2-3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/0379772960210215
ISSN1469-8358
AutoresDavid Hellawell, Peter J. Murphy,
Tópico(s)Evaluation and Performance Assessment
ResumoBecause of the crisis in the western European welfare state, government by itself can no longer provide the full range of social services that populations have come to take for granted. The shortfall must be complemented by an increasing variety of voluntary organizations. In order to be effective, however, such organizations as well as the more traditional service‐providing government organizations must have good leadership. As good leaders are as much trained to be good leaders as born, an efficient means must be developed for training leaders. Given the rapidity of social change, training must be provided on a permanent basis. The authors therefore propose the setting up of a European Master's Degree programme in leadership training. It would be modelled upon a distance Master's Degree programme in Educational Administration (Northern Interior Master's Programme ‐NIMB) that the University of Victoria in Canada offered in a large area of northwest Canada. Much of the course work for such a programme would be provided by distance means using new communication technologies. Universities in seven countries: England, Belgium, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Norway, and Finland, that formed a consortium, would administer and offer this programme in which employed administrators could enroll.
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