Abstract

The current state of the normative providing of introduction of new specialty “public management and administration” is analyzed in the article. The meaning of terms “public management and administration”, “public governance”, “public management” was revealed. The study identified key priorities for training applicants for higher education in specialty “public management and administration”, among which a special place is occupied by harmonizing training standards for the level of training “Bachelor”, “Master”, “Doctor of Philosophy» (PhD). The article describes the principles enshrined in the Law of Ukraine “On Higher Education”, such as transparency, independence of higher education, priority of universal values, unity of the national educational environment, universal access to education, the principle of international integration of the higher education, and democratic nature of education governance and institutional autonomy. The study revealed a number of issues regarding the regulatory support of implementation of the new specialty “public management and administration”. In particular, the analysis of the Law of Ukraine “On Higher Education” points to the need to review the whole range of existing programs and adapt their content to the requirements of the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the EU. There is an urgent need to improve educational programs as to the number of ECTS credits for competencies of graduates in terms of learning content, terms of learning outcomes, certification and quality control. Creation of the new educational programs of universities aimed at ensuring conditions for the formation and development of professional competencies of bachelors and masters will enable them to work successfully in the field of public administration and management at the international, national, regional and local levels. Under the new paradigm, the main areas of university training seekers of higher education in the specialty “public management and administration” is the study of public managers, of public policy analysis; management of the economy; civil service; public administration and international development.

Highlights

  • Modernization of the state management system and the modern approaches to the formation of professional competencies of managerial staff in the context of Association Agreement between Ukraine and European Union condition the increased requirements to the quality of higher education, especially to the preparation of the high education applicants on the specialty “public management and administration”.It must be noted, that for today our country has not enough specialists who understand the need for changes in Ukraine, have analytic knowledge and are able to adapt the regulatory acts of European Union to the Ukrainian realities

  • The problem of identification of the notions “public administration” and “state service” is the subject of discussion while the regulatory field of Ukraine differentiates the state service and service in the local governance and does not offer the official interpretation of the notions “public management” and “public administration”. We find it necessary to elaborate the unified approaches to the formation of categorical apparatus and regulation of the main terminology at the legislative level

  • The analysis of the current status of introducing the specialty “public management and administration” in educational process of the higher educational institutions give the ground for the following conclusions

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Modernization of the state management system and the modern approaches to the formation of professional competencies of managerial staff in the context of Association Agreement between Ukraine and European Union condition the increased requirements to the quality of higher education, especially to the preparation of the high education applicants on the specialty “public management and administration” It must be noted, that for today our country has not enough specialists who understand the need for changes in Ukraine, have analytic knowledge and are able to adapt the regulatory acts of European Union to the Ukrainian realities. We find it necessary to elaborate the unified approaches to the formation of categorical apparatus and regulation of the main terminology at the legislative level

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