As Civil Service Act comes into effect on May 1, 2008, all the attentions have been on the adverse affects that are being brought with the Act. It is no doubt that the first susch system in the country would be in its infancy stage due to the newness of such a system in the Maldives. However, with time, maturity would be attained and those adversely affected today will be fairly treated in due course.
Being a TVET specilaist, I would like the new Civil Service Commission to focus on assiting the Education and Training Providers in the country with clealry spelled Job Descritpions, rather being vague and out-of-date job tasks or duties. Updating the various job decriptions would help to increase the slow and sluggish Public Administration System. We need to exert a serious input in reducing the red tapes and increasing the overall speed of the Maldives Public Administration Machine.
Job Analysis of all the Civil Service Employees need to be done to prepare an up-to-date Job Description with clear Performance Measurement Mechanisms.
Such a system will no doubt help the newly established TVET system in designing training pograms to the needs of various jobs or positions. Performnce requirements of various jobs when linked with the Education and Training will help the TVET system to to develop clearly spelled Competency Based Curriclms and would ensire the newly established TVET system is afterall demand driven.
I am sure Cvil Service Commission will look into the above suggestions as we despeartely need to improve the quality and speed of our Public Administration System.
