The University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, has announced a new two-year postgraduate master’s course in Public Policy and Global Affairs.

The University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, has announced a new two-year postgraduate master’s course in Public Policy and Global Affairs. Addressing pressing issues of the 21st century, including human rights, climate change, poverty, security and risk, the programme will help train students for senior management roles such as policy analysts, foreign policy strategists, directors of corporate policy, and so on.

The programme aims at making the graduates work-ready, flexible and adept at facing any situation, whether they involve government, business or not-for-profit organisations. Moura Quayle, co-director of the Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs programme said it focuses on ‘pracademics’ — the concept of learning by doing. This involves people actually ‘doing policy’ as part of the programme: analysing, creating and implementing the policy.

The classroom would be a professional setting in which students are required to collaborate in the same way as they would with future colleagues as part of a team. A series of professional development workshops will be aimed at giving students the capacity to be effective in the workplace. In the second year of the programme, students will work in teams with real-world, global clients.

Students can apply for the course for 2016 through the website http://mppga.ubc.ca. The last date for submission of application is January 26, 2016.