The role of universities in the higher education teaching of public administration and the training of civil servants in Africa

Abstract

The purpose of this report is to facilitate the work and exchange of views to which the Conference of Directors of Central Personnel Agencies (or Civil Service Commissions) and Directors of Public Administration Institutes in Africa convened at Addis Ababa by the Economic Commission for Africa will give rise. It does not attempt an exhaustive definition of the place the University should occupy in the training of administrators in Africa. It aims merely at suggesting some subjects for discussion, centering them around two main questions: first, the institutional background in which the training and in-service training of civil servants is situated and organized and, secondly, the intellectual content of this training as reflected by the training and research programmes of African universities.