In accordance with Article 21 of the Civil Service Examinations Act, one has to accomplish the open competitive examination before turning out to be a civil servant. After having passed examinations held by the country, all civil servants at different levels are required to receive training (including Basic Training and On-the-job Training) according to their categories and types. Those who have completed the training with satisfactory performance will be issued certificates and being officially employed as a civil servant.
The Civil Service Examination is the major channel of selecting civil service talents. However, although they have passed the examination, there are gaps between government operations and their general knowledge, professional knowledge and skills. Therefore, the Basic training is conducted to nurture new-entries with necessary basic concepts, integrity and service attitude, as well as enrich their basic administrative knowledge and capabilities for future positions.
1. Goals
Recognizing public servants needed by the government and the trainees, NACS organize training courses that comply with national development and match the needs of the employing institutions and trainees. NACS’s goals are to enhance trainees’ knowledge of administrative procedures and techniques, organization culture of government agencies, and shape their service ethics and core values to cultivate their service philosophy and integrity, so to ready adequate new-entry civil servants for the public and the country.
2. Trainees
Every year, the NACS trains nearly 5,000 new-entry civil servants who have passed the Elementary, Junior and Senior Civil Service Examination, as well as Special Examinations for Civil Service Personnel, such as Examinations for Local Government Personnel, the Disabled, Indigenous Peoples and Military Veterans Transferring to the Civil Service.
Trainees’ after-class learning
3. Courses
The courses included “national policy”, “quality service”, “civil service knowledge and administrative techniques”, “civil servants ethics and values”, “civil service law and application”, “obligation, responsibility and rights”. 4-week training; 120 hours, and an additional online courses.
4. Features
(1) Use digital technology: promote learning diversity through integration of offline and online courses. Implement “digital information online platform” to establish the benchmark of training and technology integration.
(2) Promote adaptive teaching: different trainees for different target positions should receive respective courses, specially-made materials and classified assessment to satisfy trainees’ learning requirements and future career development needs.
(3) Strengthen cross-disciplinary learning: trainees specialized in different areas are gathered together to exchange experience, making collective learning and growth possible.
5. Assessment
20% for “innate character”; 80% for “course scores”. “Course scores” is separated into “project report” and “examination scores”.
Each of individual tests mentioned above is measured in 100 points. Trainees are required to get 60 points or higher after proportional sum up to pass the training.
At training class