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M. Lučić, Obrazovanje arhivista i spisovoditelja za novo okruženje: praksa u svijetu i izgledi u Hrvatskoj, Arh. vjesn., god. 44 (2001), str. 33-42 in archival education still shows the heritage of the past, diversities and determinations of its development. Among most various educational models the most frequently represented is the one in which archival education is a superstructure of some other, earlier basic education. Most often it is the study of history. Generally, such archival superstructure consists in archivistics courses, auxiliary history sciences, records management, etc. The examples of university education in the world (Italy, Israel, France, Netherlands, Slovenia, Canada etc.) show its lack of uniformity in terms of form, content and duration. The studies of archivistics in Croatia are monitored from the academic postgraduate studies organised by the Documentation and Reference Centre for Library Science, Documentation and Information sciences of the University of Zagreb, to the studies organised at the Faculty of Organisation and Informatics of the University of Zagreb in Varaždin, and the postgraduate studies of auxiliary history sciences with the possibility of specialising for archivistics at the Faculty of Arts and Letters in Zadar, to the separately organised study on the Department of Information Sciences at the Faculty of Arts and Letters in Zagreb at the end of 1980. The changes on principle grounds concerning the programs of education for the archival profession should consist of more transparent redefinition of the education programs for the professionals should be employed in the archives and as the records managers (particularly for electronic records) in the registry offices, improving the ratio of practical work and theoretical elaboration of the archival problems, the scientific and research issues during the graduate and postgraduate studies as well as the education of the scientific research methodology have to be more articulated. Key words: archival education, study of archivistics, records managers 42