Paper/Speech Details of Conference Program for the 20th NISPAcee Annual Conference Program Overview Public Administration Education Author(s) Denis Berezovsky International Market Institute Samara Russian Federation Title Peculiarities of comprehensive training process in public and municipal administration File Paper files are available only for conference participants, please login first. Presenter Denis Berezovsky Abstract Formation and development of higher vocational education in the speciality (direction) ‘Public and Municipal Administration’ is inseparably linked to the legal governmental reforms in Russia in early 90-s of the XX century. Lack of managerial personnel has been perceived over the period of reforming the key state institutions and up till now. To bridge this gap, it was necessary to settle the issue of training highly skilled and knowledgeable specialists at the systemic level. With this purpose, in the year 1994 – for the first time in the Russian higher-education history – start was given to training in the realm of ‘Public and Municipal Administration’. Initially, two country’s leading higher-education institutes began training specialists in this field – Moscow State University (MSU) and Russian Academy for Public Service under the RF President (RAPS). While MSU focused on educating students, RAPS was mainly involved in training actively working public servants. Education was based on integrated curricula, with the aid of which the students mastered the key curriculum modules: economic, legal, informational, psychology-occupational. Progressively, not only higher-education institutes in the capital, but also in other cities across the country got involved in the training process. Currently, several higher-education institutes in Samara Region educate students in the field under consideration. International Market Institute (Samara), precisely its Department (Institute) for Public and Municipal Administration, has been implementing all-inclusive training in this speciality. The full-scale cycle of training in Public and Municipal Administration includes the following elements: 1. Higher education for students (4 academic years); qualification – ‘Bachelor’ 2. Distant education for trainees including public and municipal servants, who have or have no higher education (5 academic years – complete course for secondary-education institute graduates; 3.5 academic years – for higher-education institute graduates); qualification – ‘Bachelor’ 3. Occupational retraining of public and municipal servants, heads of public and municipal establishments (1 academic year – 500 in-class academic hours); additional qualification in Public and Municipal Administration 4. Medium-terms courses of further occupational development for public and municipal servants (108-150 academic hours); Further Occupational Development Certificate 5. Short-term courses of further occupational development (72 academic hours); corresponding Certificate The above described system enables each person to complete all the stages of training in Public and Municipal Administration, graduate from the higher-education institute, obtain position in bodies of state authority or local self-governance entities, pass through retraining, and improve occupational skills – virtually over all his/her official career. Introduction of in-depth study courses in all the curricula shall be regarded as advantage and innovative form of the educational process. Implementation of such an integrated system provides good opportunity of achieving goals and objectives in educating highly skilled specialists for bodies of state authority and local self-governance entities of Samara Region.
