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The Faculty of Administration is one of the University of Ljubljana’s
newest faculties, but it has a long history as an educational
institution. Its work goes back to 1956 when it was founded as the
College of Administration. In 1995 it became a higher education
institution, and was renamed as the School of Public Administration.
From 1997 the preparation of modern new study programmes on
a level comparable to universities around Europe gave increasing
impetus to the idea of granting the School of Public Administration
full faculty status.
Development of the Faculty of Administration International accreditation
In 2003, by amending the Order on the Transformation of the
University of Ljubljana, the Slovenian parliament completed the
process of changing the status of higher education schools, and
on 5 April 2003 the School of Public Administration officially became
the Faculty of Administration.
Today the Faculty implements its mission in the field of higher
education in administration science, academic research, development
and consultancy work, supplementary professional training for civil
servants and international cooperation with similar educational and
research institutes. The focus of the Faculty of Administration’s work
includes the development of these areas:
• the legal organisation and development of the public sector,
• public sector organisation,
• public sector economics,
• public finance,
• public sector management,
• informatisation of the public sector and the development of
e-government.
Study programmes in Administration at the Faculty
of Administration meet the criteria defined by the
demanding quality standards of the EAPAA (European
Association for Public Administration Accreditation).
The EAPAA international accreditation ensures the quality
of the teaching programmes and comparability on the
European level.
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