GOVERNMENT HAS REVISED the qualification requirements for the civil service at all levels, creating uncertainty among officers who do not meet them.
The Public Service (Qualifications) Order 2016, which was published last December, has implemented changes to the educational requirements for senior public officers as well as those at the bottom of the scale, such as cleaners, drivers, security guards and traffic wardens.
For example, the holders of some top jobs will now require a postgraduate degree, rather than a minimum undergraduate degree as under the previous order.
An official in the public service said it was only the third time since Independence that there had been a major revision of qualifications. The others were in 1976 and 2001.
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