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Meeting on 20 March 2013, 9.15 - 11.15 am
Room: Rector's Office, bldg. 1430, First floor
Education Committee meeting
Record of decisions
Members: Mette Thunø (chair), Peder Østergaard, Marianne Ping Huang, Tom
Vindbæk Madsen and Berit Eika
Secretarial support: Maya Jepsen, Gitte Stavad, Maria Volf Lindhardt and Camilla B.
Rahbek
Guests: Marianne Toftegaard Hansen and Orla Hoppe (item 4)
Camilla B. Rahbek
1.
Summary of previous meeting, including approval of notes and resolution minutes, the status of follow-up projects and also approval
of the agenda
Resolution minutes, notes and agenda were approved.
Transition to institutional accreditation
The Education Committee discussed the presentation for the dialogue meeting
with the ministry on March 21.
The Education Committee agreed on the following 4 items to think about before the meeting with the ministry:
1: Interplay between criteria and organs
2: Consideration for diversity and differentiated conceptions of
quality
3: Processes and evaluations and trust
4: Job market and student recruitment
The Education Committee discussed the presentation of process and organisation for the transition to institutional accreditation.
The process plan was reviewed and several suggestions to additions and changes were made, and these will be added to the document before the next meeting
of the Education Committee.
Aarhus University
Aarhus University
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8000 Aarhus C
Date: 11 April 2013
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Discussions
2.
The Rector’s Office
Tel.: +45 8715 0000
Fax: +45 8715 0201
Email: [email protected]
www.au.dk
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The Education Committee decided that the process plan will be refined on the
coming committee meetings until the subject is to be discussed in the senior
management team and until the deadline for submission to the ministry on August 1 2013.
It was pointed out that the vice-deans need to enter into dialogue with the academic environments regarding the process to ensure the anchoring at the main
areas and make the project more visible.
Draft for the project organisation was outlined:
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It was proposed to invite someone from BSS to one of the coming meetings of
the Education Committee to talk about how accreditation works at BSS.
3.
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Status of the quality of the work
PS informed that the work of the working group for evaluation of teaching progresses as planned, and that interest is shown in the organisation of the project.
3.a: implementation of strategic resources 2012
At the beginning of the meeting, item 3.a was added to the agenda since it is
urgent to carry out the implementation of interdisciplinary strategic resources
of 2013.
Case presentation on the strategic resources was handed out at the meeting.
March 11 2013, the senior management team sanctioned the recommendation
to grant a total of 4.9 mio. kr. to the educational area.
TVM informed that the study environment group will be able to meet on April 5
to begin the implementation process. The vice-deans will divide the resources
and a plan of distribution will be used per student.
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4.
The working group for study activity
The Education Committee discussed the proposal of calculating study activity
made by the ministry, with the aim to:
1) prepare MET’s next meeting on the subject on March 22.
2) to reply in writing to the ministry by May 1 2013 at the latest.
Special consultant from the Quality Team Marianne Toftegaard Hansen and
senior consultant Orla Hoppe from Business- and System Support participated
at this item.
MET outlined the reasons behind as well as the purpose of the working group.
The Education Committee discussed technical possibilities and limitations of
STADS and other IT-systems the university could use for calculating study activity.
Among other things, it was concluded that the current proposals for the detail
categorization of the teaching forms are worrying and restrict the flexibility,
and also that the calculation should be connected to STADS as the primary system supported by area specific solutions at the university (EDDI).
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6.
AU Strategy 2013-2020
Agenda of the Forum meeting 7 May
Item 5 and 6 were discussed at the same time.
It was remarked that the talent development, as it appears in AU Strategy
2013-2020, receives much attention from the board, the students and others.
Many activities relating to talent take place at the main areas, yet it is not registered at the same place.
It was decided that talent development will be the subject of the coming meeting of AU Forum for Education on May 7 2013.
BE handed out a memo on talent development at Health.
It was decided that AU Strategy 2013-2020 and the agenda for the coming
meeting in Forum are to be discussed in detail on the coming committee meeting.
Briefings
7.
Internationalisation (regular item)
Nothing to add.
8.
Briefing from Peer Learning Activity
PS informed the participants about the conference Peer Learning Activity on
drop out, retention and completion.
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9.
Briefings from EDU IT
BE drew attention to the importance of perceiving the LMS-project as a joint
LMS-project with a shared focus even though the pilot project is headed by
BSS.
BE also informed the participants about a meeting with Blackboard.
It was noted that we need to be on the attentive to the communication about
the project - also after it is finished.
10. The conference overview
Nothing to add.
11. Meeting schedule
Nothing to add.
12. Announcements and next meeting
Nothing to add.
13. AOB
PS informed the participants about a degree programme cand.it. which was
lowered from high to middle taxi-meter rate.
14. Open debate
Nothing to add.