National Diploma: Public Administration Level 7

NATIONAL DIPLOMA: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

Public Admin NQF Level 7

COURSE OUTLINE:

EXIT LEVEL OUTCOMES

1. Deliver public value.
2. Formulate and evaluate public sector policies and programmes.
3. Fulfil management functions required to deliver public value.
4. Conceptualise, design and implement a public sector development management framework.
5. Integrate public administration under the rule of law.

PURPOSE OF THE QUALIFICATION

• The purpose of the NQF Level 7 Public Administration qualification is to provide the knowledge, skills, attitudes and values required by public officials that work at a senior management and executive level.
• The National Diploma in Public Administration (NQF Level 7) is aimed at practitioners working in the public sector. It is the last qualification in a career pathway in Public Administration and Management.
• The National Diploma in Public Administration consists of Exit Level Outcomes covering competencies related to service delivery from a developmental perspective, ensuring that public value is delivered within the broader market economy, formulating public sector policies, evaluating outcomes of multiple projects and determining requirements for new projects, harnessing knowledge that can be integrated into public sector decision making and problem solving, designing and facilitating all administrative functions required to ensure regionalism, decentralisation and governance, strategically leading public sector change and integrating public administration under the rule of law