UNIVERSITY OF GHANA BUSINESS SCHOOL DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION & HEALTH SERVICES MGT SECOND SEMESTER, 2014/2015 ACADEMIC YEAR (PH.D IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, YEAR 1) COURSE TITLE: ISSUES IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION (PAHS 742) SEMINAR QUESTION What is public management? Is it a genuinely new area of academic inquiry, or is it merely an old subject that is being dusted off and recycled? Explain carefully the relationship between the research field of “public administration” and that of “public
in almost every country. In Iran English is taught as a foreign language in high-schools as well as in universities (Mirdehghan, HoseiniKargar, Navab, & Mahmoodi, 2011). Aside from different language courses presented in different levels of public academic centers, there are also private institutes that teach different levels of foreign language. As a branch of English language teaching, English for specific purposes (ESP) has gained much attention during recent years (Johns, 2013; Sarem, Hamidi, &