School of Public Administration of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen Verwaltungsschule der Freien Hansestadt Bremen

The School of Public Administration is the specialist training college for civil servants in the State and City of Bremen; it also serves as a vocational college for the public-sector apprenticeship schemes governed by the Vocational Training Act under private law. The following training programmes are currently offered at the School of Public Administration:

• Office Communication Assistants,
• Administrative Assistants,
• Judicial clerks,
• Prison Service,
• intermediate fire service.

In addition, the following are organised as part of the Senator for Finance’s further training programme:

• preparatory courses for members of the Bremen civil service leading to the administrative assistant examination,
• support courses leading to the further training examination to become an administrative specialist or to the career examination for the higher general administrative service,
• various other courses designed to impart administrative knowledge.

The teaching staff consists of 10 full-time lecturers. In addition, practitioners from the business and administrative sectors teach the practice-oriented subjects.