An Effectiveness Study on Policy Level Training Course: A Case from Bangladesh Public Administration Training Centre, Bangladesh

Abstract

The civil servants are treated as the principal-agent of the government for providing service and coordinating among different segments of society; it is better to provide appropriate training to them. Bangladesh public administration training centre (bpatc) is providing capacity enhancement training for the civil servants. The study aims attempt: to identify the effectiveness of the existing curriculum of the policy level courses for senior civil servants; to examine training methods whether those are relevant for curriculum delivery as need-based or not, if so then how much; to identify some strong and weak points as a means of 'center of excellence' of bangladesh public administration training centre (bpatc) and to visualize managerial implications and provide policy suggestions for ensuring the effectiveness of policy level training courses for the senior civil servants of bangladesh. This study adopted semi-structured questionnaires developed by the evaluation department of bpatc are assessed and presented in this report to obtain study objectives. Analyzing results found that in training modules, training methods, contents, some academic, and non-academic components at a satisfactory level. Results also provide some managerial implications for the future development of training courses and training content development. Bpatc organizes several training courses, but this study has given focused only on senior staff course (ssc). Finally, the study findings have implications to enrich the training curriculum development of policy-level courses and training management for the senior officials as well.