CSC-Caraga spearheads teachers’ enhancement seminar for transformation

By Robert E. Roperos

Thursday 17th of May 2012

BUTUAN CITY, May 17 (PIA) –- Civil Service Commission (CSC) - Caraga is recently spearheading the conduct of teachers’ enhancement seminar for transformation.

Participated by public elementary and high school teachers in the region, CSC-Caraga Regional Director Adams Torres said the activity is aimed to empower teachers to give their best not only in providing quality education to students and contribute to the transformation of the country’s bureaucracy as state workers.

As teachers, Torres said, they have strong influence for others to follow because students and parents alike find them models, thus making them the right sector in the government whose skills and attitudes be enhanced for transformation.

“If they are already transformed, then they can also influence others to embrace transformation,” the official said in Cebuano dialect.

Public school teachers, Torres added are still under the governing rules of the Civil Service, thus, they must follow the code and ethical standards of public servants.

The official added the event is also in support to the transparency and accountability governance, which is the flagship program of the Aquino administration in an effort to transform and clean the bureaucracy in the country.

Meanwhile, the CSC chief of the region also stressed that another batch of human resource management officers and legal officers of the different government agencies in the region have attended a seminar on handling legislative cases.

Torres said the training is aimed at improving the participants’ knowledge in handling legislative cases, should any government employee found to have violated any code of conduct set by CSC.

The official added, the participants were informed on the new guidelines in governing the conduct of disciplinary and non-disciplinary proceedings in administrative cases brought before the Commission and/or other government agencies, except where special law provides otherwise.

Under CSC Memorandum Circular 19, series of 1999, the Commission, through Resolution No. 99-1936 dated August 31, 1999 adopted the new uniform rules in administrative cases in the Civil Service. (RER/PIA-Caraga)