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Is it a group or a singular person who has made a special effort to make your everyday study life better? Then you should nominate them to The Education and Learning Environment Award 2024!
The student representative arrangement is part of the quality system for education at UiS.
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Instructional Support is part of the Quality System for Education at University of Stavanger (UiS), and includes all systematic measures that help make learning and teaching easier and more accessible to the university's staff and students. Instructional Support helps making the studies universally designed.
UiS (University of Stavanger) would like to offer students a good and inclusive learning environment. A good learning environment creates well-being and enhances learning.
The quality assurance of the Ph.D.-educations follows the same overall principles for evaluations and reporting in the quality system as first and second cycle studies does. To ensure the Ph.D.-educations' particular characteristics, separate guidelines for completion of course evaluations and programme evaluations on Ph.D.-level has been made.
The Learning Environment Committee (LEC) at UiS is been appointed by the University Board. The LEC attend to the environment that the studies and their contents are offered within. This includes the physical, digital, psychosocial, organisational and educational learning and study environment.
The education committee handles cases regarding the work with quality with authority from the board. The education committee is responsible for accreditation of bachelor-, master's-, and Ph.D.-programmes. The committee must approve periodical programme evaluations and re-accredit programmes.
Based on the faculties' portfolio reports, the commissioning from the board and the faculty boards' decisions, the education committee and the board handles the annual case regarding the systematic work with quality and the work with development and changes in the portfolio.
Rector has annual strategic dialogue meetings with the faculties. The dialogue is a structured exchange of information, inputs and managing signals regarding long-term follow-up of results and action points.
The development dialogue i completed annualy by pro-rector for education, director of academic affairs and the faculty managements. The purpose is to accommodate for unified assessments of the development of the programme portfolio of the faculty, their plans for dimensioning of study places and plans for establishments and discontinuations of programmes.
The faculty's portfolio report must contain an overall assessment of the portfolio and how it is anchored in strategy and action plans.
The guidelines include establishment of all new yearly programmes and degree-programmes, including executive master's degrees offered as commissioned or self-financed studies
All programmes must be periodically evaluated every five years. The programme is evaluated according to current laws and national regulations, as well as additional criteria decided by UiS.
One of the goals of the quality work at UiS is to ensure the students' total learning outcomes at programme level. The programmes must also be based on updated research- and development work, and meet national and international expectations to the education.
The quality development of the supervised professional training happens both at course- and programme level. Supervised professional training is a big part of the students' education. For the education to maintain high quality, it is necessary for the supervised professional training to meet the learning outcome goals set for it. it is therefore important to collect systematic data regarding the quality in the supervised professional training at UiS.
Work with quality at course level for the Ph.D.-candidates