The main objective of Hong Kong’s new Civil Service College is not to foster patriotism among government staff, but to make training more structured as well as give them a sense of duty and a stronger ...

An open government is one that is transparent, participatory and collaborative. But moving from traditional government operating behind closed doors to more open institutions, where civil servants ...

Twenty years ago Sir Richard Mottram likened the civil service to “a rather stupid dog”. The top official at the transport department had been trying to explain to MPs how committed the civil service ...

New Delhi: The government has launched the national standards for civil service training institutions, which aims at elevating their quality and capacity, Union Minister Jitendra Singh said on Monday.

Secretary for the Civil Service Ingrid Yeung today said that strengthening training for civil servants is a major priority of the Civil Service Bureau of the new-term Government. The bureau will, ...

Tony Kwok welcomes Chief Executive Carrie Lam's proposal to establish training college along the lines of Singapore's I have previously written a number of articles comparing Hong Kong with Singapore.

Home Office caseworkers should call asylum seekers 'customers', according to an official training programme offered to thousands of civil servants. Officials should use the terminology rather than ...

A Civil Service Scheme meant to take care of the training of civil servants is to be launched this year. It is aimed at improving the outlook of the civil service ...

I have previously written a number of articles comparing Hong Kong with Singapore. Looking back 30 years, Hong Kong was then the envy of Singapore. Now Singapore has surpassed Hong Kong on a number of ...