Schools and Institutes of Public Administration
| Published date | 01 June 1977 |
| DOI | 10.1177/002085237704300212 |
| Date | 01 June 1977 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
SCHOOLS AND INSTITUTES
OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
FRANCE
Economic and Financial Administration. They
also attended language courses. The common
This account of the 1976 and the beginning
core comprised the study of administrative
of the 1977 academic
texts and
year of the National
documents, budgetary and taxation
School of Administration (ENA) will be fol-
questions, accounting, informatics, and an in-
lowed by others
troduction
on that institution whose
to mathematics.
Small working
thirtieth anniversary congress was reported in
groups were under the guidance of lecturers.
our No.4/1975, pages 417-418.
Supporting lectures were given to clarify a few
points or to place the problems studied and
In 1976,
their solutions in
as in previous years, three classes
topical contexts.
Mean-
registered : the 1974 entrants due to leave the
while, the class was divided into small groups,
School in May 1976; the 1975 entrants back
which also included students from abroad and
from first-year internships; and the 1976
from the Posts and Telecommunications Col-
en-
trants, comprising the successful candidates of
lege.
The general theme studied by the
the 1974 competitive examination who had
General Administration section was &dquo; trans-
served in the forces before entering the School
port &dquo;, while the Economic and Financial Ad-
and those of the 1975 examination who had
ministration section dealt with &dquo; anti-discrimin-
been exempted from service, had already
ation &dquo;.
Each group prepared a fifty-page re-
served, or were women.
port for the end of 1976. The courses were
interrupted from 1 September to 15 November
The 1974 Class students graduated at the
by internships in public or private enterprises
end of May. During the final period, each
in Paris or the provinces. In addition to learn-
of them took part in the work of two of the
ing about the enterprises’ different functions
twenty-three &dquo; optional &dquo;
and external
groups formed to
relations, the students studied the
pre-
theme of
pare a report, a file, or a card index, as the
professional relations, which was part
of the
case might be, on Latin America, South-East
syllabus of the Labour Relations paper
Asia, the Indian Ocean, Italy, Algeria, France
at the examination. After the business intern-
and Eastern Europe, international agricultural
ship period, the &dquo; option &dquo; work programme
problems, OPEC, international monetary prob-
lasted until the end of March. The themes
lems, strategic problems in Europe, community
were: the North-South dialogue, the new eco-
law, maritime law, national defence, public
nomic order, national defence, strategic prob-
health
lems in
economy, local authorities, financial
Europe, Spain, the Iberian...
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