Continuing education and training programs for municipal administrators: a case study in selected provinces††

Abstract. This paper presents the results of interviews carried out in twenty urban centres in British Columbia, Alberta, and Ontario on the matter of education/training programs for municipal administrators. After a brief review of literature on this topic, a composite profile of the respondents is presented. The survey results are analysed under four separate items: the need and its dimensions; awareness of and attitudes toward existing programs; anticipated attitudes of civic civil servants and politicians; and factors to be considered in designing and initiating programs for senior and middle management personnel. The study, while indicating a positive demand for programs, suggests that further field research be conducted and that a trial program be mounted to assist in evaluation. Sommaire. L'auteur de cette communication expose les résultats d'entrevues faites dans vingt centres urbains de la Colombie-Britannique, de l'Alberta, et de I'Ontario sur la question des programmes d'éducation/formation pour les administrateurs municipaux. Après une revue rapide des ouvrages sur ce sujet, il présente le profil moyen des personnes interrogées. Les réultats de l'enquête sont analysés de quatre points de we & tincts:les besoins et leur dimension; la connaissance des programmes existants et les réactions qu'ils provoquent; les attitudes antidpées des fonctionnaires et des représentants municipaux; et les facteurs A considérer pour concevoir et lancer des programmes à l'intention des cadres moyens et supérieurs. Tout en indiquant une demande positive pour des programmes, cette étude montre le besoin d'une recherche pratique plus approfondie et d'un projet-pilote qui aiderait à l'évaluation.     

The Distribution of the Armenian Abandoned Properties in an Ottoman Locality: Kayseri (1915–18)

Abandoned properties of the deportee Armenians is a new topic in the literature which began to attract the interest of scholars. As a general tendency, most of the related studies focused on the evaluation of the rules and regulations on the abandoned properties. Even though it is important to take legal framework into consideration, this article would rather focus on the analysis of the actual process in an Ottoman locality, Kayseri. By doing this, it tries to go beyond presenting the ‘mentality’ of the ruling elite, and construct the actual history of the process. In the first part of the article, the studies on the abandoned properties would be analyzed, and in the second part, the distribution of the Armenian abandoned properties in the sanjak of Kayseri would be detailed.