POLICE ACADEMY OF LATVIA

The Academy's mission is to provide each student with a study process and environment which would favour the development of high professional competence and the ability to set and achieve goals in life, to form a creative, free, enterprising, responsible, independent individual capable of finding his/her identity under the changeable conditions and competing successfully on the labour market. Moreover, each graduate of the teacher training study programme will be able to create a learning environment at school where the pupil can achieve his/her natural potential and reveal his/her individuality, learns to take control of his/ her life, acquires the skill to be an efficient and happy person. Our students learn to know, learn to do, learn to live together, learn to be. That is what the pupils of our graduates will learn. CONCEPTION RTTEMA prepares a teacher who is able to prepare pupils for life and work in information society. The conceptual cornerstones of RTTEMA study process are intelligence, competence and proficiency. Each study programme enables the students to cultivate the necessary professional competencies. In RTTEMA's vision teacher's proficiency is the skill to carry out high - quality work observing moral and ethical standards based on deep awareness of one's mission, high intelligence, confidence, love of work, experience and continuous self - perfection. HISTORY RTTEMA is conceptually and technically modern professional higher educational institution founded by the state. It started its work in 1994 with 1273 students and now is one of the largest higher educational institutions in Latvia in terms of the number of students. RTTEMA FACT FILE Date of birth 1994 Number of students - 6974 ( 1149 - full- time students) Faculties Teacher Training and School Management Faculty Pre - school and Primary School Faculty Faculty of Music Faculty of Psychology Departments 17 Programmes of study 14 Part- time study centres in Csis, Kuldga, Riga, Tukums, Jkabpils, Madona, Bauska, Liepja, Ventspils, Aluksne. Academic staff 325 Computers 400 VISION Our Academy is a recognised university - international centre of pedagogical research, with branches in other countries, its own students, campus and research basis STRATEGY The Academy has created a favourable environment characterised by humanistic values and humane relations. The activities of our staff are based on creative, equal in rights, responsible co-operation and dialogue. The strategic aims of the coming years: To encourage the Academy's continuing development by creative work. To carry out research directed towards the development and implementation of the Academy's conception and the perfection of the Latvian educational system. To provide high quality studies purposefully improving the methodological and technical provision of the study process. To maintain regionalism - offer new possibilities of education to the inhabitants of Latvia close to their place of residence. THE ACADEMY'S INTELLECTUAL ENVIRONMENT The Small Academy - training structure for the Academy's lecturers, attended by over 100 Academy's employees every year 81 publications Library with stocks in 10 cities of Latvia Family education and support centres Creativity Centre Students Club as the basis of the development of the teacher's professional competence Academic adaptation for the first year students Annual competitions of students' creative work Art studios Art galleries Free access computers Internet connection for all Academy's computers THE ACADEMY'S PSYCHOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENT Democratic and creative Favouring the identity of each individual Directed towards mutual co-operation CULTURAL ENVIRONMENT Art gallery Studios of creative self-expression Asni and Studija - 110 Choir Fortius Folk dance group Writers' Union PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT 4 buildings - 2 in Riga, 1 in Csis and 1 in Kuldga Students' cafes 2 sport halls, a stadium The study premises are gradually renovated every year. Provision of technical support (video cameras, OHPs, multiprocessors, computers, microscopes etc. There is a free access to pianos, a digital organ and a pipe organ in the Music Faculty.