Civil Service Recruitment: Fairness or preferential advantage?

Recently some of my students reported serious unhappiness about their treatment in the Qualifying Tests (QTs) for entry to the civil service as administration trainees. This led me to inquire further into the nature of their complaints and to compare their experience with some of the details published in the latest (19921993) Civil Service Commissioners’ Report. The purposes of this short article are therefore to report what happened to my students, consider some of the details in the latest Report that may appear most significant to readers of Public Policy and Administration, and reflect on some of the continuing problems. facing the Civil Service Commissioners.