The Cayman Islands Civil Service College
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The Cayman Islands Civil Service College (CICSC) is a school of higher education in the Cayman Islands
. It was established in 2007 to further New Public Management
reforms as well as the learning and development needs of the Cayman Islands Civil Service and to carry out research.
The CICSC is currently offering degree programs through the auspices of the University College of the Cayman Islands
. It is also formulating e-learning capacities for continuing education, specialty training, and support of competency-based human resource initiatives.
The intent of founding the college is to deliver a framework whereby civil servants could learn to excel and, moreover, Caymanians could be assisted toward building the appropriate competencies to regularly seek out higher civil service offices.
The College also has a regional focus meant to assist and partner with other governments in their efforts to implement pragmatic implementation of good governance reforms.
To date (October 2010), the CICSC has directly served over 600 Cayman Islands Civil Servants, offering classes in over 130 sections and 50 different areas. The latest class information can be found at http://www.csc.ky/.
In October 2009, the Associate in Public Administration degree offered through the University College of the Cayman Islands was formalized. This programme allows civil servants to attain an Associates degree at no cost, while learning valuable comptencies to help them with their everyday challenges.
The excitement for the College continued on with the announcement of another training pathway through the Civil Service Academy which launched in August 2010. The addition of the Academy now provides civils servants with the opportunity to take competency based courses online at their convenience. It also houses all learning a civil servant has accomplished, providing for an accurate record of civil servant learning for both the civil servant and the Cayman Islands Government.
Cayman Islands
The Cayman Islands is a British Overseas Territory and overseas territory of the European Union located in the western Caribbean Sea. The territory comprises the three islands of Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac, and Little Cayman, located south of Cuba and northwest of Jamaica...
. It was established in 2007 to further New Public Management
New Public Management
New public management is a management philosophy used by governments since the 1980s to modernise the public sector. New public management is a broad and very complex term used to describe the wave of public sector reforms throughout the world since the 1980s...
reforms as well as the learning and development needs of the Cayman Islands Civil Service and to carry out research.
The CICSC is currently offering degree programs through the auspices of the University College of the Cayman Islands
University College of the Cayman Islands
The University College of the Cayman Islands is a tertiary educational institution in the Cayman Islands.-History:The original Community College was established as a part-time institution in 1975, the first government-sponsored tertiary education in the Cayman Islands.The Trade School, the Hotel...
. It is also formulating e-learning capacities for continuing education, specialty training, and support of competency-based human resource initiatives.
Founding
The CICSC was founded in 2007 as one element of the continuing reform programme implemented over the last several years in the Cayman Islands Civil Service. The practical model of the Cayman reform program was New Zealand.The intent of founding the college is to deliver a framework whereby civil servants could learn to excel and, moreover, Caymanians could be assisted toward building the appropriate competencies to regularly seek out higher civil service offices.
The College also has a regional focus meant to assist and partner with other governments in their efforts to implement pragmatic implementation of good governance reforms.
To date (October 2010), the CICSC has directly served over 600 Cayman Islands Civil Servants, offering classes in over 130 sections and 50 different areas. The latest class information can be found at http://www.csc.ky/.
In October 2009, the Associate in Public Administration degree offered through the University College of the Cayman Islands was formalized. This programme allows civil servants to attain an Associates degree at no cost, while learning valuable comptencies to help them with their everyday challenges.
The excitement for the College continued on with the announcement of another training pathway through the Civil Service Academy which launched in August 2010. The addition of the Academy now provides civils servants with the opportunity to take competency based courses online at their convenience. It also houses all learning a civil servant has accomplished, providing for an accurate record of civil servant learning for both the civil servant and the Cayman Islands Government.