Theme 2006: Taking stock of accomplishments and identifying guidelines for progress – the contribution of PA/PP education to the creation of effective civil service and improved governance.

After the first meeting during the NISPAcee conference in Moscow in 2005 members of the working group had contact by mail .During the 14^th NISPAcee Annual Conference in Ljubljana the working group had its second meeting. This time there were papers on degree programmes in 6 countries.( Kyrzygstan,Georgia , twice Russia, Latvia , Ukraine ) . More then before information on the situation in countries east of the enlarged EU was available. Next to the country information , a paper on accreditation of PA-programmes and a paper on education on state reform were discussed.
Interesting topics were for example :
· the relation between the needs/demands in the public administration and the outcomes of public administration education
· specialisation in the administration in relation to the risks of fragmentation of the education.
· The relation between mission, curriculum development, didactics and evaluation of the programmes
· The different target-groups of PA-education.
The next step is that the programme coordinators will analyse the materials discussed during the conferences in Moscow and Ljubljana and prepare a publication as tangible outcome of this two-years project.

Archives:
Call for papers 2006 for the WG on Degree Programs