Report to the Minister of Health by the Departmental Committee on Qualifications, Recruitment, Training and Promotion of Local Government Officers.

  • Great Britain. Committee on Local Government Officers.
Date:
1934
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    91 German local authorities are, like the English, free to determine for themselves the qualifications and method of recruitment of their officials. But in recent years the Prussian Union of Towns has laid down general regulations with a view to raising the standards of the service and. to facilitating exchanges between authorities. The regulations recognise two methods, the one stage career and the two stage career. Under the first, entrants are admitted at 15 or 16 with a school leaving certificate on a four year period of probation. The probation is taken very seriously, and consists partly of practical work, partly of lectures and classes. The probationer is given experience of all the more important departments. In the last year he must attend a prescribed course of study at an administrative school, or, if there is none available, a group of lectures in administration at a high school. He must pass an examination before being established. After a few years he takes a second course of study at an administrative school, and must then pass a second examination. Under the two stage career some officers enter the service at 15 or 16, and take the course of.training as under the one stage plan; and others may enter the senior grade direct from the higher forms of secondary schools. At the administrative schools the teachers include men with experience in central and local government, as well as university pro- fessors. Practical classes and tours of inspection are arranged. As regards the higher posts, some heads of departments have technical qualifications, others are purely administrators. The Burgermaster controls all departments. He is appointed for a term of years. Some of the work in the higher branches is done by probationers for the civil service. These must have practical experience of local administra- tion before taking the final examination for the civil service. (27550—11) Wet. 2842—1018 250 1/85 P.St. G. 335 ga