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This article provides a comprehensive overview of the various components comprising the lifelong education system for public servants. With the advancement of e-government being a pivotal aspect of public administration, the significance of e-learning as a crucial tool for equipping public servants to fulfill this objective is examined. The study analyzes both domestic and international experiences of e-learning for public servants, encompassing distance education, blended learning, and its integration within traditional classroom settings. The article sheds light on the potential threats and benefits of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) training, drawing insights from a survey conducted among civil servants who received ICT training in Ukrainian higher educational institutions. By drawing upon scientific and empirical evidence, the trends in e-learning development are identified, with certain countries serving as exemplars in addressing the current challenges in this field. This article serves as a valuable resource for understanding the current landscape of e-learning in the context of lifelong education for public servants, highlighting emerging trends, inherent challenges, and the wider implications for effective governance.

Background: Fast-moving economic and information development of the modern society, changes in content of specialists' professional activity and a quick renewal of current knowledge, stipulate the necessity to develop specialists' professional mobility for mastering new skills and habits, the ability to get oriented in the professional and social environment. This is the system of postgraduate education that gives the possibility to train a professionally mobile specialist who is able to master new skills and habits as well as to improve the current ones, orientate themselves strategically in the professional and social environment in conditions of new professions, and to foster their development. So, professional mobility should be considered as a component of professional competence that is developed in the system of postgraduate education.