When crises occur, revisiting given knowledge and practices seems sensible and necessary. For instance, the recent financial crisis in 2008 lead to questioning the role played by financial institutions and business schools in precipitating the crisis by allowing questionable professional ethics to go unchallenged. There is a current crisis in public administration in the UK, visible in the growing challenges to public sector professionals in their practice and in the increased questioning of the government as a guarantor of public services and welfare. To understand the current situation, exploring the role of public administration teaching and professional organisations in the UK is key. Have we perhaps neglected the teaching of ethics and public value as crucial tenets to the profession and to its practice? This paper explores the necessity, merits, and difficulties of embedding ethics and public value concepts into the curriculum.

当危机发生时，重新审视既定的知识和实践似乎是明智和必要的。例如，最近的 2008 年金融危机导致人们质疑金融机构和商学院在加剧危机中所扮演的角色，让有问题的职业道德不受质疑。英国当前的公共行政存在危机，从公共部门专业人员在其实践中面临的日益严峻的挑战以及对政府作为公共服务和福利的保证人的质疑越来越多可以看出。要了解当前情况，探索公共管理教学和专业组织在英国的作用是关键。我们是否可能忽略了作为职业及其实践的重要原则的道德和公共价值的教学？本文探讨了必要性，