Can Centralized Public Administration Education Work?

For F4 Unpanel on Teaching and Education in Public Management Hungarian public administration and public management education has undergone serious institutional centralization recently. What was the strategic aim when the... [ view full abstract ]

For F4 Unpanel on Teaching and Education in Public Management

Hungarian public administration and public management education has undergone serious institutional centralization recently. What was the strategic aim when the centralization was decided? Did the change meet its original ambitions?
The paper makes an attempt to summerize educational developments in mandatory civil service professional training in the light of detectable needs of Hungarian civil service. The paper analyzes the development of professional training performance in the context of changing human resource needs. Individual career strategies of civil servants used to be categorically different in the years of the economic crisis when the institutional centralization was decided compared to the current situation when there is a tangible employer- competition for well-qualified workers. Currently, cross-sector mobility is more tempting for civil servants than in previous years. In this situation mandatory civil service professional training is attractive for new recruites or on the contrary: it urges decision to leave the system? The paper attempts to answer these questions in order to draw a perspecitve on how further development could be designed.