Online Business & Management Courses in Ireland

Institute of Public Administration - IPA:
The Institute of Public Administration is the Irish national centre for development of best practice in public administration and public management. Our training and education programmes are tailored to the needs of public servants. The IPA also ensures that the distant student, whether at undergraduate or postgraduate level, is supported in their studies through attendance at seminars and tutorials, contact with academic staff through e-mail and telephone help-lines and library services which can be accessed electronically and at a distance.

Bachelor of Arts Degree (BA) in Public Management, Diploma in Public Management (DPM), Bachelor of Business Studies (BBS), Diploma in Business Studies (DBS), MA in Public Management programme, MA in Healthcare Management, MA in Local Government Management, Higher Diploma in Public Management (HDPM).

Distance Education or Learning is not new. Its growth in recent years, however, can be linked to two main forces - the extraordinary potential for e-learning through the Internet and e-mail, and the increased pace of change in working life with the consequent need for lifelong learning.

The distance mode is more flexible in that it allows the student, within limits, to study at a time and at a pace of their choosing and this allows the mature student particularly to balance study with work, family and social commitments. The more mature student is also perhaps more strongly motivated and better informed through life and work experience, which influences assist the self-discipline required by the distance mode of study.