Paper/Speech Details of Conference Program for the 30th NISPAcee Annual Conference Program Overview WG7: Public Administration Education Author(s) Goulya Nurlybaeva The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration Moscow Russian Federation Title LESSONS LEARNT BY PA EDUCATION DURING THE PANDEMIC CRISIS OF 2020-2022: THE EXPERIENCE OF RUSSIAN PRESIDENTIAL ACADEMY OF NATIONAL ECONOMY AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Guliya K Nurlybaeva Institute for Social Sciences at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Russian Federation File Paper files are available only for conference participants, please login first. Presenter Goulya Nurlybaeva Abstract Abstract The analysis of the impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on public administration (PA) education is carried out by the author. The research methods included theoretical research concerning teaching and learning during distance education process, analytical research methods, the methodology of empirical research, comparative research methods. The latest works of the researchers of PA services and PA education during the Covid-19 Pandemic have been thoroughly studied. The materials of the research provided by the teams of teachers of the leading Russian universities concerning the work of universities during 2020 - the first year of the pandemic – had been taken into consideration. The participation of the author in the discussions at the Meetings of the International Consortium on PA Global Survey (Covid-19) headed by Dr. Alexander Aristovnik from Slovenia in 2020-2021 also helped to handle the problem considered. The latest data provided from the analysis carried out at the Institute for Social Sciences (the ISS) of Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA), Moscow, covering many profiles of study of future public administrators in the conditions of distant learning in the 2020-2021 and in 2021-2022 years of study, allowed the author to make some conclusions and give recommendations and some practical advice to teachers and education managers aimed to the improvement of the educational programs for PA students regarding the new conditions of distant learning during the pandemic. The main conclusion made on the results of the analysis is that digitalization at the time of the Covid-19 Pandemic should be considered to be the most important issue in public administration education. The ways of improvement of the educational process of the students – future civil servants – with due account of digital transformation of education process in a crisis situation are outlined. Recommendations for teachers and education managers concern the implementation of digital methods of teaching in the distant regime, the curriculum development, e-learning and teaching technologies, new PA programs, the ways of improving the methodological support of distant learning and teaching. Keywords: Public administration, public administration students, Covid-19 Pandemic, distant learning, digitalization, professional competencies, educational and training programs, recommendations for teachers and education managers in the epoch of Covid-19 Pandemic 1. Guliya K Nurlybaeva, English Language Department, Institute for Social Sciences at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Moscow, Russian Federation. Email: goulya21@mail.ru; Telephone: +7 (916) 6801640
