Specialist Education Council:
- A: Composition of the Specialist Education Council:
- 1. Vice-President for Education and Graduate Studies (chair of the council)
- 2. Director General of Educational Services of the faculty (secretary of the council)
- 3. Education managers of the faculty’s centres
- 4. 2 out of four academic staff members proposed by the Vice-President for Education and Graduate Studies, with the approval and decree of the head of the faculty
- B: Duties and powers of the Specialist Education Council:
- 1.Cooperating with the faculty’s Vice-President for Education and Graduate Studies to create the conditions for implementing the resolutions of the faculty council and the decisions of the presiding board
- 1. Drawing up and proposing various education and graduate-studies programmes to the faculty council, including:
- - Various educational programmes at bachelor’s and graduate level, separately
- - The changes needed in how curricula are implemented, within the framework of the resolutions
- - Educational regulations and giving an opinion on them
- - Suitable short-term and medium-term non-formal educational schemes
- - Estimating the capacity for admitting new students to bachelor’s and graduate programmes
- 2. Examining and giving an opinion on matters referred to the council by the faculty council or the faculty’s Vice-President for Education and Graduate Studies
- 3. Examining and giving an opinion on the educational quality of the faculty at bachelor’s and graduate levels and programmes, and examining the teaching quality of academic staff, for submission to the faculty council
- 4. Examining proposals for establishing new programmes and courses of the faculty at various levels
- 5. Examining the texts of handouts and books submitted by academic staff for conformity with the approved syllabuses, and submitting the outcome to the faculty council
- 6. Examining the invitation of foreign professors in the disciplines required, on the proposal of the departments and with the approval of the faculty, for submission to and authorisation by the Vice-President for Education and the other legal authorities
- 7. Drawing up periodic and analytical reports on the state of programmes, levels and curricula on various matters, and proposing practical solutions to improve the existing situation, for submission to the faculty council
- 2- Specialist Graduate Studies Council:
- A: Composition of the Specialist Graduate Studies Council:
- 1. Vice-President of the faculty for Education and Graduate Studies (chair of the council)
- 2 . Vice-President of the faculty for Research
- 3. Director General of Graduate Studies of the faculty
- 4 . Director General of Educational Services of the faculty
- 5. Education and graduate-studies managers of the faculty’s centres
- 6. 2 out of four academic staff members proposed by the Vice-President for Education and Graduate Studies, with the approval and decree of the head of the faculty
- B: Duties of the Specialist Graduate Studies Council:
- 1.Cooperating with the faculty’s Vice-President for Education and Graduate Studies to create the operational conditions for the resolutions of the faculty council, the decisions of the presiding board, and the approved regulations and programmes
- 2.Drawing up and proposing various educational programmes to the faculty council, including:
- - Educational programmes for master’s and doctoral courses
- - Proposing the changes needed in the manner and implementation of curricula, within the framework of the approved criteria
- - Examining graduate-studies regulations and giving an opinion on them
- - Proposing suitable short-term and medium-term non-formal educational schemes to the faculty council
- - Estimating the capacity for admitting new students to graduate programmes and submitting it to the faculty council
- 3.Examining and giving an opinion on matters referred to the council by the faculty council or the University’s Vice-President for Education and Graduate Studies
- 4.Examining the educational quality of the graduate programmes in the faculty and the teaching quality of the academic staff active in these programmes, and submitting a report on it to the faculty council
- 5.Examining proposals for establishing new programmes and graduate courses of the faculty
- 6.Examining the proposals submitted by the education and research council of the centres regarding the number of graduate students to be admitted, for submission to the faculty council.
- 7.Drawing up periodic and analytical reports on the state of programmes, levels and curricula on various matters, and proposing practical solutions to improve the existing situation, for submission to the faculty council.
- Note: should the Specialist Graduate Studies Council not be formed, its duties rest with the Education Council.
Published: 1 Jun 2025