Michael A. O’Neill

Michael A. O’Neill teaches public administration and policy at the School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa. He is the lead author of the OECD’s 2017 report National Schools of Government : Building Civil Service Capacity.

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Containing the long-term impact of COVID-19 on higher education

Like colleagues across the higher education sector, I spent a hectic 72 hours in mid-March, transitioning a well-honed teaching plan based on in-person interactions into the largely uncharted territory of the online learning format. With …

Is this the moment for a national Master’s in Public Administration and Public Policy?

Even before COVID-19 emerged as the defining problem of the decade, these were challenging times for Canadian governments. Since 2000, governments have faced increasing demands and pressures to address the intersecting forces of economic, demographic, …