It provides training, retraining and advanced training for pedagogical, scientific and pedagogical workers, management personnel, professional junior bachelors, bachelors, masters and postgraduate students.

350.:[1] was adopted on the reorganization of the regional methodical cabinet into the Institute for the Improvement of Teachers' Qualifications.

At first, the institute had 5 educational and methodological offices (pedagogy, language and literature, history and geography, physics and mathematics, primary school); its staff consisted of only 9 people.

The institute was directly subordinated to the regional department of public education.

7 departments were created, each of which had laboratories, thereby a new structure of the educational institution was formed.

On October 11, 2017, by decision of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Council, Dnipropetrovsk Regional Institute of Postgraduate Pedagogical Education changed its status and became the Dnipro Academy of Continuing Education (hereinafter referred to as the academy).

Viktor Sychenko, Honored Education Worker of Ukraine, Doctor of Sciences in Public Administration, Professor, was elected rector of the academy.

During the years 1939–2024, the academy upgraded the qualifications of about 700,000 teaching and managerial personnel of Dnipropetrovsk region.

– training of higher education specialists of various levels in accordance with state and regional orders and contractual obligations; – professional development of teaching staff; – retraining of pedagogical and other workers; – specialization and training of specialists; – scientific and methodical support of activities and development of preschool, general secondary, vocational and technical, extracurricular education; – innovative activities for the development, approval, examination of new educational technologies and management models, promotion of their implementation in the activities of educational institutions; – implementation of fundamental and applied research in the field of education, their implementation in practice; – implementation of international cooperation and others.

Today, more than 25,000 pedagogical workers of the region take advanced training courses annually at the academy.

According to accredited educational programs, the academy graduates students in the following specialties: – Professional Preliminary Higher Education (Professional Junior Bachelor): – Bachelor: – Master's degree: – Postgraduate Studies: 281 Public Management and Administration.

"Dnipro Academy of Continuing Education Herald"[3] was registered with the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine on November 19, 2021, includes the series "Public Management and Administration" and "Philosophy.

The trade union organization of the academy is the founder of the regional pedagogical newspaper "Dzherelo".

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