Title: Does the civil service commission of Bangladesh map skills to align public administration major graduates' education, recruitment testing, and training to ensure substantial educational development?

Authors: Gazi Mahabubul Alam; Romana Kader; Vesna Skrbinjek; Md. Mahfuzur Rahman; Karima Bashir; Nor Azni Abdul Aziz

Addresses: Department of Foundations of Education, Faculty of Educational Studies, University Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia; International School for Social and Business Studies, Mariborska cesta 7, 3000 Celje, Slovenia ' School of Business, Bangladesh Open University, Gazipur, Bangladesh; Department of Foundations of Education, Faculty of Educational Studies, University Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia ' International School for Social and Business Studies, Mariborska Cesta 7, 3000 Celje, Slovenia ' School of Business, Bangladesh Open University, Gazipur, Bangladesh; Department of Foundations of Education, Faculty of Educational Studies, University Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia ' Department of Education, Faculty of Education, Kebbi State University of Science and Technology, Aliero, Kebbi State, Nigeria; Department of Foundations of Education, Faculty of Educational Studies, University Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia ' Department of Foundations of Education, Faculty of Educational Studies, University Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia

Abstract: Public administrative jobs should ideally follow a regulated framework to ensure recruitment tests; education and training are properly aligned. This is a topic that is currently much debated. Given the nature of the research question, a quantitative approach was adopted. The ratio of science graduates in public administrative roles is markedly higher than that of their counterparts who graduated with a public administration major. A science-friendly recruitment test increases the number of science graduates. Furthermore, science graduates do well in various aspects of job training. This may mean that the public administration programme does not inject adequate or specialised knowledge, which is required for doing public service jobs well. Policy reforms are needed to align recruitment tests, public administration programme and training so that educational mismatch is reduced.

Keywords: education; public administration; training; mismatch; skills requirement; recruitment test; Bangladesh.

DOI: 10.1504/IJEED.2026.152683

International Journal of Education Economics and Development, 2026 Vol.17 No.2, pp.177 - 202

Received: 16 Jan 2025
Accepted: 10 Feb 2025
Published online: 07 Apr 2026 *

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