Abstract
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Open model for civil servants training propose some theoretical principles, extracted from the theory of human capital, the theory of social professional filters, and from the theory of continuous professional education. Input components from the theory of human capital is:
• Development of the individual professional competencies is not separate from the motivation of individual;
• It is not correct to develop the professional competencies just for fixed position. Instead, education should be oriented for professional growth, for discovering of new creative capacities, for long-lasting carrier of individual. It is, namely, the development of human capital, not limited by peculiar skills or applied knowledge training;
• Individuals have the right to select educational programs from the open market according to their needs.
Theory of social professional filters adds to the list some additional principal requirements:
• Professional competencies should be correlated with specific job position of civil servant;
• Professional education should be not only knowledge-oriented, but mainly practical-oriented on effective implementation of job duties;
• Promotion on next positions should be based on merit, but not on other capacities and motivation level.
The principles of continuous professional education theory mostly based on human capital theory, and just concentrated on the necessity to provide the education for civil servants not occasionally, but regularly, according to the needs of servants and government bodies.
At the paper I would like to concentrate on 3 levels of civil servants training in the US:
Types of the educational training programs (different subject orientation of the programs);
Structure of the educational programs (duration, educational methods and technologies, relation of the programs, what kind of organizations could execute the programs);
System of training process governance (division of the responsibility: government bodies, universities, associations, other organizations, plus evaluation of the programs quality);
Programs financing (individual vouchers, tenders, direct financing, etc).
All the levels of civil servants training system in the US I will try to evaluate from the prospects of its correlation with the Open Model principles, and to prove that, with some peculiarities, the US training for civil servants system fits for Open Model principles.
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