The National School of Government (NSG) has unveiled more online courses for public servants to complete while observing the national lockdown at home to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
The Minister for the Public Service and Administration, Senzo Mchunu urged public servants to enrol for the compulsory Nyukela Pre-Senior Management Service course during this period as part of building an ethical, capable and developmental public service.
All who wish to join the senior management service should complete this course. In addition, the NSG has unveiled more online courses that will be available from 1 April for self-registration and enrolment.
These courses, which are available at no cost to the officials, are the following;
- Getting started with e-learning (This is not a course, but prepares online learners for e-learning)
- Writing for government
- Ethics in the public service (Compulsory course for all public servants)
- Ethics for internal auditors
- Policy and procedure on incapacity leave and ill-health retirement (PILIR)
- Generally recognised accounting practice (GRAP) course
- Introduction to strategic planning and management
- Introduction to leading change
- Introduction to financial management and budgeting.
To peruse all the e-learning courses officials should visit the NSG website (https://www.thensg.gov.za/) and click on ‘Open eLearning courses’ under the e-learning tab. Follow the on-screen instructions to register an online profile (if they have not done so yet).
The school trains about 4 000 public servants annually at its premises in Sunnyside, Pretoria and 40 000 in external venues in other cities nationwide. Face-to-face training was suspended last month in light of the national lockdown and will enhance online training during this period.
Enquiries may be directed to any of the following:
nitasha.ramparsad@thensg.gov.za
craig.jansen@thensg.gov.za
louise.lepan@thensg.gov.za
fran.greyling@thensg.gov.za
guillaume.kruger@thensg.gov.za
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