45 Years Higher Education in the Area of Security – Educational Challenges and Security Perspectives

Abstract

The process of education of cadres in the domain of security and police activity in the Republic of North Macedonia, through its historic development, has been carried out systematically and continually in the framework of the primary, secondary, and university education since the beginning of 1970s.The Faculty of Security, during the 45 years of its functioning, has been a contemporary and renowned university, high-educational and scientific-educational institution for profiling cadres in the area of security and police activity for the needs of the security institutions and services in the public and the private sector in the Republic of North Macedonia. Since its founding in 1977, the faculty, in certain periods through its developmental and transformational processes, had been conducting its activity as Faculty of Security and Social Self-defense (1977), Police Academy (2004 and today as Faculty of Security.In the framework of this paper, through the historical continuity, we first give a short retrospection of the primary and secondary police education, and then we elaborate the processes of establishing, development and the contemporary challenges of the university education in the domain of security.