The Relevance Question Revisited: A Mid-Careerist Perspective on Public Service Education

1986 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 281-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert F. Durant ◽  
William A. Taggart ◽  
Amy Horne
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Teaching Styles ◽  
Substantial Effect ◽  
Vantage Point ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
The Public ◽  
Work Habits ◽  
Unique Vantage

Although nearly two decades have passed since the Honey Report was issued, MPA education is still wrestling with the “relevance question.” This exploratory study seeks to assess the relevance issue from the unique vantage point of 183 mid-career MPA students at sixteen universities across the country. Queried are mid-careerist perceptions of the content, effect, and curriculum development needs of their MPA educational experience. The findings indicate: (1) a concern about the theoretical versus practical application focus of the mid-careerist experience; (2) a perception by these students that MPA education was having a substantial effect on their work habits, attitudes, and values; (3) a feeling that the balance afforded to ethics, politics, and skill development should probably differ among the subdisciplines; (4) a convergence of opinion with pre-service students on the most appropriate teaching styles for PA classrooms; (5) the perception that distinct differences existed in pre-service/mid-careerists to help academics provide a more applied view of the public service to pre-service students. The study concludes by arguing for the adoption of a service delivery ethic stressing knowledge co—production in the MPA educational process.

scholarly journals IMPROVING THE EFFICIENCY OF CANADA’S PUBLIC SERVICE

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 67-73
Author(s):  
Наталья Касаткина ◽  
Natalya Kasatkina
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Civil Service ◽  
Monitoring And Evaluation ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Public Servants ◽  
The Public ◽  
Level Of Training ◽  
Resources Planning ◽  
Made In

Improving the efficiency of public service is an important area for overcoming the crisis in relations between the state, society and a citizen. Modernization of civil service of Canada is carried out in a number of ways. Changes were made in a recruitment order for civil service by means of expansion of the powers of persons competent to solve these issues in ministries and government departments. One of the directions for improving the quality of the civil service was an increase in the level of training of public servants. Coordination of the educational process in various government departments is carried out by the Canadian School of Public Service. The system of human resources planning has been introduced. The quality of public services provided is improved with help of timely providing them in compliance with all requirements of a particular government department, and taking into account the rights of citizens by achieving a balance between the services provided and the money spent for this purpose and regular monitoring and evaluation of the dynamics of the providing process of services. One of the areas of modernization of the public service is the introduction of strict control over of public servants’ ethical standards. Actions that lead to a conflict of interest are legislatively prohibited. Strict bans in Canada are implied regarding the employment of persons who replace public office after the end of their career. As a result of the measures taken to fight corruption, including a sphere that is largely susceptible to corruption risks, Canada is among top ten countries with the least corruption. Achievement of positive results in the activities of civil servants became possible due to the state’s special attention to the issues of its modernization.

The organization and work of the Division of Biochemistry and General Nutrition of C.S.I.R

1949 ◽  
Vol 199 (1058) ◽  
pp. 273-294 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Nervous System ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Applied Science ◽  
Academic Life ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Complete Understanding ◽  
Vegetative Nervous System ◽  
The Public ◽  
Government Administration ◽  
Intellectual Discipline

In allotting me the task of relating to you something of the organization and work of the Division of Biochemistry and General Nutrition of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, I trust it is not your pleasure to have me dwell on the first part of this title—for a description in measured terms of a substance so tenuous is beyond me. Organization (in its official sense) is not readily discernible to those of us who are gathered together in this laboratory. It is there, but it is never obtrusive. We are an organ of a body which, although nurtured by Government funds, is free from the vegetative nervous system of the public service administration. We are situated within the precincts of a university, and enjoy the amenities and intellectual discipline of academic life without having to shoulder too great a burden of teaching. Our reference is to conduct research (with a quiet aside that applied science may remain healthy and productive only when thoroughly fertilized with more fundamental studies). Here is a grand experiment in Government administration. The burden of responsibility entailed is apparent. This, together with a simplefaith that practical application will flow freely and naturally from more complete understanding of the underlying phenomena, directs our efforts; and a common curiosity welds us, without loss of individuality, into a team. Our accounts are kept in a wray which is acceptable to the Treasury.

scholarly journals Procedural unfairness occasioned by unreasonable delay in finalising a disciplinary inquiry: Stokwe v Member of the Executive Council: Department of Education, Eastern Cape [2018] ZACC 3

Obiter ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 651-661
Author(s):  
Bongani Khumalo
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Service Sector ◽  
Road Accident ◽  
Department Of Education ◽  
Eastern Cape ◽  
Executive Council ◽  
Perceived Fairness ◽  
The Public ◽  
Disciplinary Procedures

“Justice delayed is justice denied” is a legal maxim which denotes that if legal redress is available to a party that has suffered, or is suffering an injustice but is not dispensed timeously, it has the same effect as having no redress at all (see Steenkamp J sentiments in Road Accident Fund v Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration [2016] ZALCJHB 139 par 5; see also the definition at Definitions and Translations https://www.definitions.net/definition/justice+delayed+is+justice+denied (accessed 2019-09-12)). In this context, the maxim is used to emphasise that delays in finalising employment disciplinary processes may amount to a denial of justice. Research shows that unreasonable delays in finalising disciplinary cases affect the health and can even cause excruciating distress on the employees concerned (Van der Bank, Engelbrecht and Strumpher “Perceived Fairness of Disciplinary Procedures in the Public Service Sector: An Exploratory Study: Empirical Research” 2008 6(2) SA Journal of Human Resource Management 8).

Digital education: Using electronic resources in psychological support of the educational process

2020 ◽  
pp. 55-61
Author(s):  
Ju. A. Tikhonova
Keyword(s):  
Preschool Education ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Psychological Support ◽  
Diagnostic Methods ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Software Products ◽  
School Year ◽  
Psychological Service ◽  
Software Product ◽  
The City

The article discusses the development trends of the modern preschool education system in the aspect of the activity of the teacherpsychologist of the preschool educational organization. The experience of using 1C software products in the practical work of the psychological service of kindergarten 318 of the city of Perm in the aspects of psychological monitoring of children’s readiness to study at school and correctional and developmental work with preschool children is presented. The components of the child’s psychological readiness for school are described. On practical examples, diagnostic methods for determining the level of readiness of children for schooling are analyzed. The data of testing kindergarten pupils at the beginning of the 2019/2020 school year on the parameters allowing to identify urgent problems and determine the direction of the necessary correctional development work are presented. Features of the practical application of the software product 1C:Preschool Psychodiagnostics in the process of psychological support of preparing children for school are considered. Methods are described, the scope of which is aimed not only at the study of personality traits, but also at its development. The possibilities of using games of the 1C:Educational Collection in the correctional and developmental work are disclosed. The description of game collections is given, options for their use are presented.

Welfare State Values and Public Service Media in the Era of Datafication

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaarina Nikunen ◽  
Jenni Hokka
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
Social Solidarity ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
The Public ◽  
Media Companies ◽  
Data Practices ◽  
Public Media ◽  
New Public

Welfare states have historically been built on values of egalitarianism and universalism and through high taxation that provides free education, health care, and social security for all. Ideally, this encourages participation of all citizens and formation of inclusive public sphere. In this welfare model, the public service media are also considered some of the main institutions that serve the well-being of an entire society. That is, independent, publicly funded media companies are perceived to enhance equality, citizenship, and social solidarity by providing information and programming that is driven by public rather than commercial interest. This article explores how the public service media and their values of universality, equality, diversity, and quality are affected by datafication and a platformed media environment. It argues that the embeddedness of public service media in a platformed media environment produces complex and contradictory dependencies between public service media and commercial platforms. The embeddedness has resulted in simultaneous processes of adapting to social media logics and datafication within public service media as well as in attempts to create alternative public media value-driven data practices and new public media spaces.

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