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In
spite of its name the Fachhochschule für öffentliche Verwaltung ("college
for public administration") is not a college in its purest sense: it is
open only for officials of local or state authorities who were
chosen for what could be translated as “higher executive class” of
the public service (higher means higher than the lowest and lower than the
highest class in today’s hierarchy of the German public service. So actually
it is what could be called the “medium class”. Anyway this translation
wouldn’t be adequate because the “lowest” class of the German public
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The
employment-system of the public authorities in Germany is strictly regulated
through federal and regional laws and decrees: In order to get a
medium-management-official the city-administration or the police (no difference
here!) has to send the successful applicant to the FHöV for 3 years of study in
which it has to pay the student about 800 $ monthly. In the
“semester-holidays“ the young official goes back to his or her employer for practical
training “on the job”. The contents of those internships are very
diverse. They reach from cost-accounting in the library or checking the hygienic
conditions in pubs and restaurants, controlling their hours of opening in the
late night or working with SAP in the staff-department (city- and
state-administration) to patrolling streets and working on criminal charges
(police).
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already said, both young policemen and officials of the general
administration have this time at the FHöV in common, being the central
part of their “preparatory service”. This means that the study-contents
depend very much on whether one is a future policeman on the one hand or a
future official of the state- or city-administration on the other. A
policeman for example has mandatory subjects like criminology, psychology
and criminal law whereas general-administration-officers usually have to
focus on subjects like constitutional law, civil law, budget-law or
welfare-law (which is usually be seen as one of the hardest subjects), but
also IT and the basics of management and economics. A new
(and a little untypical) “branch” of the local-administration-study is Public
Management (literally “Public
Business Administration”) where young officials learn about cost- and
management-accounting, management-theory, marketing and finance. |
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for
more Information on the FHöV and its students
contact webteam@fhoev-koeln.de
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