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On 1 July,聽IIPP was delighted to welcome back its second Master of Public聽Administration聽cohort (2020-21) for their graduation ceremony - marking the first in person graduation ceremony since the pandemic.聽The MPA exists to train the next generation of leaders, and students come from a wide variety of professional backgrounds.

As Professor Rainer Kattel, Deputy Director of IIPP, said:

鈥淚IPP鈥檚 radical ambition is to rethink the state, and this requires almost a complete overhaul of what it means to educate civil servants. Innovation, purpose, and value should be all at heart of what public service is about. Our second cohort of MPA students taught us perhaps as much as we taught them, helping us make huge strides in developing our curriculum鈥澛�

A running theme of the faculty speeches was resilience. Travel restrictions and a globally diverse group meant some late night and early morning seminars. Despite those difficulties, the course had impact.

Teresa Miquel Arce, a student last year, said:聽

鈥淸The MPA] has allowed me to challenge how I used to do things and to try the new approaches taught in the programme, which represent a better way to generate more value for society鈥澛�

A unique feature of the MPA is the third term placements in which students apply their learning from the first two terms to real-world challenges with partner organisations. We are particularly grateful to those partners for making such a success of online placements.聽Previous cohorts have followed a wide variety of career paths, having gone on to lead Missions in local councils, work in think tanks and charities, take senior positions in national governments, return to IIPP, amongst many other things.聽

Reflecting on the event, Dr. Kate Roll, Head of Teaching at IIPP, said:聽

鈥淚t was wonderful to celebrate this milestone together 鈥� in person! This class has been one marked by resilience, good humour, passion and smarts, and the ability to form strong bonds with each other and with IIPP despite the pandemic. We are honoured that they joined IIPP and are so pleased, now, to have them as alumni.鈥澛�

Further information:

• Learn more聽about IIPP's MPA programme here