National Political Service Training Centre
The National Political Service Training Centre (NPSTC; Arabic: مركز التدريب للخدمة السياسية الوطنية markiz at-tadrīb lil-khidmah as-siyāsīyah al-waṭanīyah) is the official training institution for civil servants in the Arab Union, who are organised as employees of the National Political Service (NPS; the Arab Union's official civil service commission). In addition to training prospective civil servants for a future career in the civil service, the NPSTC is also responsible for administering the Arab Union Civil Service Examination, the passing of which affords the examinee an offer of employment with the NPS.
The National Political Service Training Centre is in fact occupies ten separate locations across the Arab Union, each offering exactly the same curriculum and examination procedure, making the NPSTC a single entity physically occupying ten separate schools. The location of the ten schools is as follows:
- Nasseria (next door to the administrative headquarters of the NPS itself)
- Beirut, Lebanese Arab Republic
- Baghdad, Iraqi Arab Republic
- Riyadh, Peninsular Arab Republic
- Dubai, Gulf Arab Republic
- Cairo, Egyptian Arab Republic
- Tripoli, Libyan Arab Republic
- Tunis, Tunisian Arab Republic
- Algiers, Algerian Arab Republic
- Casablanca, Moroccan Arab Republic