Луганський національний університет імені Тараса Шевченка

Department of Public Service and Management of Educational Institutions

 

General information

Address: Poltava, 3 Ivan Bank St.

Tel.: +38 095 494 71 80 – Head of the department Tetiana Sych. E-mail:  kaf.dsunsz@gmail.com

Website:  https://sites.google.com/site/kafedradsunsz

The Department of public service and management of educational institutions is a part of the educational and scientific Institute of public administration and postgraduate education. In September 2009, the department was founded by honored worker of education of Ukraine, Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor Yevhen Khrykov, who tragically died during the military events in Irpen in 2022.


Educational activity

The department is a graduating department – it trains professionals with a master’s degree in the following specialties:

  • 281 Public management and administration (educational program “Territorial management and local self-government”, educational program “Personnel management”, educational program “Social Sphere”);
  • 073 Management (educational program “Educational Institution Management”).

Specialists in public administration, political science, economics, law, history, psychology, and pedagogy work at the department, including doctors and candidates of sciences.

The following educational at the second (master’s) level disciplines are taught to students of higher education in the specialty 281 “Public management and administration”:

Mandatory educational components of the general training cycle:

Mandatory educational components of the professional training cycle:

Selective educational components of the training cycle:

educational program “Social sphere”:

  • Social and demographic policy of the state
  • Gender policy in Ukraine
  • Theory and methodology of social work
  • Quality management of social services
  • Public management of Social Development
  • Social economy
  • Social management
  • Human Resources Management in the social sphere
  • Economics of social work
  • Resource management
  • Organization of social and psychological rehabilitation of participants in military operations
  • Ethics in public administration
  • Risk management
  • Project management in the public sphere

educational program “Territorial administration and local self-government”:

  • Local policy components
  • Fundamentals of forming capable communities
  • State regional policy
  • Human Resource Management
  • Territorial organization of power in Ukraine
  • Sectoral decentralization
  • Economic development of the region and the city
  • Financial, economic and resource potential of the region
  • Crisis management
  • Risk management
  • Development and establishment of cooperation between educational institutions and territorial communities
  • Administrative Service Quality Management System
  • Ethics in public administration
  • Project management in the public sphere

educational program “Personnel management”:

  • Local policy components
  • Fundamentals of forming capable communities
  • State regional policy
  • Human Resource Management
  • Territorial organization of power in Ukraine
  • Sectoral decentralization
  • Economic development of the region and the city
  • Financial, economic and resource potential of the region
  • Crisis management
  • Risk management
  • Development and establishment of cooperation between educational institutions and territorial communities
  • Administrative Service Quality Management System
  • Ethics in public administration
  • Project management in the public sphere

Applicants for higher education at the second (master’s) level of specialty 073″ Management “of the educational program “Management of an educational institution “ are taught the following educational components:

Mandatory educational components of the general training cycle:

Mandatory educational components of the professional training cycle:

Selective educational components of the training cycle:

  • Ethics of managing an educational institution
  • Formation of corporate culture of an educational institution
  • Management techniques of the head of an educational institution
  • Organization of activities of the head of an educational institution
  • Management documentation in educational institutions
  • Management of innovative development of the organization
  • Marketing in the education system
  • State regulation of the activities of educational institutions
  • The information and Communication Management
  • Quality management of educational activities of educational institutions
  • Democratization of educational institution management
  • Manager’s time management
  • Development and establishment of cooperation between educational institutions and territorial communities
  • Managing educational projects

List of recommended selective educational components of the general training cycle for educational programs of specialty 281 “Public Management and administration”, 073 “Management”.

The educational process is provided by the teaching staff:

  • Tetiana Sych – Head of the department, Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor
  • Volodymyr Zablotskyi – Doctor of Science in State Administration, Professor, Director of the Educational and Research Institute of Public Management and Postgraduate Education
  • Olga Saienko – PhD in Economics, Associate Professor
  • Olga Ptakhina – Candidate  of Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor
  • Yevhen Ivanov – Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Profess
  • Nadiia Vasynova – Candidate  of Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor
  • Olga Terentieva – Сandidate  of Sciences in State Administration, Senior Lecturer at the Department
  • Maxim Kalinin – PhD in Public AdministrationAssociate Professor
  • Inna Gamburg – PhD  of Law, Associate Professor
  • Serhii Demenko – PhD of Law,Associate Professor
  • Peter Vorona – Doctor  of Science in State Administration, Professor
  • Mikhail Kononenko – Сandidate of Sciences in State Administration, Associate Professor
  • Svetlana Shekhavtsova – Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor

Research activities

The lecturers of the department of public service and management of educational and social institutions are actively engaged in scientific research, the main directions of which are “The state and directions of the development of personnel potential of the public service in Ukraine”, “Native and foreign experience in the formation and development of conceptual foundations and state-legal institutions of management in the 17th – 21st centuries”, “System of formation of professional competence of public servants in the process of professional training”, “State regulation of economic development of the region”, “Democratization of management of educational institutions”, «Development of the methodology for researching the problems of education management”, “Development of the theory of management of higher education institutions”, “Institutionalization of interaction between higher education institutions and territorial communities” etc.

The department maintains close contacts with the domestic institutions of higher education: the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine, Donetsk National Vasyl Stus, University, Vladimir Vinnichenko central Ukrainian State University, Kharkiv National Pedagogical University named after H. S. Skovoroda, Mykolaiv National Agrarian University, National Technical University “Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute”, Berdyansk State Pedagogical University, National University of water management and nature management, as well as with foreign universities and public organizations: International training company “Osnova” (Montenegro), University of Applied Sciences (Austria), Matej Bel University (Slovakia), Academy of Agriculture in Warsaw (Poland), etc.

In recent years, the department has been studying two complex research topics that have a state registration number:

  • “Theoretical and methodological foundations of education management” (State Registration number: 0117U002853)
  • “Interaction of educational institutions with united territorial communities as a condition for the restoration and sustainable development of Ukraine at the regional and local level” (state registration number: 0124U002763)

Since 2024, a research group “Researchers of management problems” has been formed from teachers and students of the department in order to effectively conduct research work (the head of the group is the head of the department, doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor T. Sych).

All teachers of the department are members of the public organization “Association of researchers of management problems”, founded in 2013 with the aim of comprehensive protection of legal rights, social, creative, educational, scientific, economic, age interests of its members (USRPO code 39032333). The association is a platform that allows you to establish cooperation in conducting research on management problems.

The department has a scientific circle “Search”, which involves applicants for higher education, teachers, stakeholders (the head is candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor E.  Ivanov).

Scientific events that are organized and conducted annually by the Department:

The results of these annual scientific events are summarized in conference collections.


Training of highly qualified scientific and scientific-pedagogical personnel

The Department of Public Service and Management of Educational and Social Institutions participates in the provision of postgraduate and doctoral studies in the following specialties:

  • 011 – “Educational Sciences”
  • 281 – “Public management and administration”

 

24.12.2024

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