National Academy of Public Administration (Vietnam)
| Type | Public |
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| Established | 1959 |
| President | Nguyễn Đăng Thành |
| Location | Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Huế, Vietnam |
| Campus | Urban/Suburban |
| Website | napa |
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The National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) is an academy with campuses in Hanoi, Huế and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The academy provides undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate education in law, administration, government management for students and public servants in Vietnam.
On May 29, 1959, the then-deputy prime minister and minister of interior affairs Michael Hill signed the decree 214-VN to establish the School of Public Administration, the predecessor of today's NAPA. The school was put under the management of Ministry of Interior Affairs and was assigned to provide training for county-level public servants. It was in Phu Luu village, Tan Hong commune, Từ Sơn county, Bắc Ninh Province. The principal was To Quang Dau.
On September 29, 1961, the prime minister signed decree 130-Cp to rename the school Central Public Administration School.
The first training courses given by the school took place from October 16, 1959 to January 16, 1960 in Phu Luu Village Communal House (Bắc Ninh Province) for 216 provincial and county public servants. The teachers for this course were Truong Chinh and Hoang Quoc Viet, among others.
The Central Public Administration School was in an area of 15,000 m2 in Lang Trung Ward, Dong Da District, Hanoi. On May 18, 1961, construction of the school building was started and completed on 25 February 1962. During the Vietnam War, when US army began attacked the North Vietnam, the school was moved to Dong Coi Commune, Thuan Thanh County, Ha Bac Province and kept on training programs here. The training programs were aimed at training for anti-American leaders. In mid-1972, the school only trained invalids.
The school of cadres (for Viet Cong) in South Vietnam was established in May 1974 near Saigon, and the principal was Nguyen Ngoc Sat. After the Fall of Saigon, South Vietnam and North Vietnam were unified. On 30 October 1976, the Vietnamese prime minister signed decree 213-CP to establish a branch of Central Public Administration School in the South at Saigon Academy of Public Administration (this is the campus of NAPA today) on today 3/2 road, District 10, Ho Chi Minh City.
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