Abstract
The aim of this article is to identify and outline the relationship between governmental effectiveness and public administration education and training. The recognition of some very basic realities of the worldwide political and governmental context within which public administrators of necessity must work is highly significant for this relationship. These basic realities are revealed and discussed. The new challenges place new demands upon the institutions preparing people to manage the governments and require a renewed attention to the manner in which the next generation of public administrators will be educated and the quality of education and training provided for them. The efforts to enhance the quality of the education and training led to the establishment of the International Commission on Accreditation of Public Administration Education and Training Programs (ICAPA) by the International Association of Schools and Institutes of Administration (IASIA). The article deals with the developed eight Standards of Excellence which, on the one hand, serve as the basis for IASIA accreditation assessments and, on the other, serve to provide critically needed guidance for encouraging greater excellence in education and training activities. In this way, building of more effective government is a consequence of promoting excellence in public administration education and training.
Highlights
Throughout the world, the past several decades have been difficult ones for the public sector
It was in this context that, among other initiatives, IASIA, in 2012, decided to initiate a worldwide system for the accreditation of public administration education and training programs
Allan Rosenbaum, a past president of IASIA, was asked to chair the Task Force whose fourteen members came from all regions of the world and included, among others, Barbara Kudrycka, Poland’s Minister of Higher Education and the heads of major public administration education and training institutions in Africa, Asia and Latin America, as well as the Executive Director of the Network of Institutes and Schools of Public Administration in Central and Eastern Europe, Ludmila Gajadasova[1]
Summary
Throughout the world, the past several decades have been difficult ones for the public sector. One significant consequence of the past half century of attacking government has been the declining recognition that strong and effective government – which public administrators manage and lead – is the single most important, and the one indispensable, institution of any modern society This is especially the case in the more highly economically developed countries of Asia, Europe and North America. When it does not play this role effectively, as we have seen in terms of the failure of financial sector regulation in many Western democracies over the course of the past dozen years, the possibilities for personal and institutional corruption, greed, and taking great risks with society’s resources can lead to economic and social disaster It is government, and only government, run and managed by public administrators, that is given the authority to legitimately utilize force to maintain the rules of order in modern society. The very first task of public administration education and training is to educate both those entering the field or already involved in it, as well as the public more generally, that this is the one activity that is absolutely central to the future well-being of society
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