The State President praised the academy’s professors, lecturers and staff for their contributions to training and providing professional administrative human resources for public offices over the last 50 years.

He said the academy has also played a key role in researching into administrative science and speeding up the country’s administrative reform.

The State leader urged the academy to upgrade the syllabus used in administrative science to ensure better quality training and work with other countries to train public administrative officials.

During its half-century of operations, the academy has given refresher courses to more than 90,000 staff and officials from ministries and relevant agencies as well as 10,000 officials who are chairmen and deputy chairmen of the People’s Council and People’s Committee at communal levels. The academy has run over 10 official tertiary courses training thousands of public administrators, 14 postgraduate courses and several doctorate courses.