Raymond Saner, Centre for Socio-Eco-Nomic Development, Geneva, 2005.

This article sets out to provide an overview of the field of national competitiveness studies and its relation to high quality human resources and correspondingly to high quality education and training.

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This book chapter introduces a quality assurance dimension, which is not sufficiently addressed by the Standards of Excellence for Public Administration and Education. The authors describe the benefits of applying the ISO 10015 Standard for Training. This standard ensures efficient organisation of the learning process but also shows that successful training requires stakeholder involvement in the training of proper governance processes and a close alignment between leadership competence and the country'  development strategy.