All posts tagged "governance"

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  Five interesting insights from the OECD’s governance report

  The recent publication includes some surprising lessons for civil service leaders – arguing, for example, that some anti-corruption practices can be counterproductive Last month, the OECD published a report promoting

  • Posted January 8, 2021
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  UK considers in-house consultancy amidst No10 in-fighting

  A new element of the UK’s civil service reform agenda emerged this week, as one of the project’s principal architects announced his departure from government. Dominic Cummings, the former Vote

  • Posted November 13, 2020
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  UK must learn lessons from poor pandemic response, says former Cabinet secretary

  Almost every country has suffered during the pandemic – but the UK has been particularly badly hit, with huge damage to people’s health, incomes and wellbeing. Matt Ross hears Lord

  • Posted September 28, 2020
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  REPORT: How the UK can respond to the COVID-19 crisis

  The Coronavirus pandemic has impacted society in the UK in countless ways beyond the obvious healthcare crisis. The economic, social and psychological impact of the virus is yet to be

  • Posted June 18, 2020
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  NZ Treasury errors led to budget leak, inquiry finds

  A series of failures at New Zealand’s Treasury – including a shortfall in governance, oversight and risk management processes – led to sensitive budget material being accessible on its website,

  • Posted March 2, 2020
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  Treasuries & transformation: finance departments’ key roles in digital

  In many governments, finance departments view technology as a useful efficiency tool. But at the 2019 Global Government Finance Summit, delegates heard that successful digital transformation demands that finance leaders

  • Posted September 24, 2019
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  Michael Wernick on turbulent times for Canada – and its Clerk

  Michael Wernick, Canada’s outgoing Clerk of the Privy Council and Secretary to the Cabinet, tells Matt Ross how the civil service is responding to an ever faster, more fractious world;

  • Posted September 16, 2019
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  Indian external recruitment drive falters

  The Indian government’s plan to bring outside specialists into senior civil service jobs, undermining the Indian Administrative Service’s (IAS’s) long-standing monopoly on leadership roles, has hit a roadblock. Or two.

  • Posted January 1, 2019
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  Brazilian department urges president-elect to curb civil service salaries

  Salaries of government workers should be brought into line with those of the private sector, according to an official report handed to the president-elect of Brazil. The right-wing former army

  • Posted November 20, 2018
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  University of Birmingham invites you to find out more about the Masters in Public Administration at the PG Open Day – Saturday 24th November

  The Masters in Public Administration (MPA) is an international Masters programme, aimed at those who aspire to a career in public management or policy-making in government, public agencies or non-governmental

  • Posted October 30, 2018
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