Duties of the Vice-President for Education and Graduate Studies

Sayyed Mohammad-Baqir Borqei Modarres

Vice-President for Education and Graduate Studies

• General duties of the vice-president:
• Communicating all resolutions, rules and regulations issued by the university president to the relevant units, and following up and supervising their proper implementation.
• Drafting regulations, guidelines and meeting agendas related to the duties of the vice-presidency, for proposal to the competent authorities.
• Providing the university president with the necessary explanatory reports on the duties assigned to the units under supervision.
• Proposing qualified persons to the university president for management positions within the vice-presidency.
• Supervising the affiliated units to ensure the proper performance of their duties.
• Planning, organising activities and proposing the annual budget of the relevant vice-presidency in line with the university's priorities.
• Cooperating with the other vice-presidencies for the proper implementation of the university's programmes.
• Carrying out other tasks assigned by the university president.
• Specific duties of the vice-president:
• Administering and overseeing the proper implementation of all policies, rules and processes of education and graduate studies at the university, in accordance with the relevant laws, resolutions, rules and executive regulations, with a view to expanding graduate programmes.
• Planning education and graduate-studies affairs in cooperation with the relevant units, supervising the proper performance of the affiliated units, implementing the educational programmes and activities of each centre and evaluating them, and submitting the necessary reports to the Board of Directors.
• Monitoring and evaluating the academic performance of students, faculty members and the education managers of the various units each semester, reporting it to the university presidency and communicating the evaluation results to faculty members.
• Proposing the running of short-term and in-service training courses to the University Council.
• Planning to provide the facilities and allocate the funds needed for the scholarly and educational interaction between the seminary and the university, in order to create a suitable environment for attaining religious knowledge and the Islamic humanities.
• Planning the university's education in line with the vision document, the national comprehensive scientific roadmap and territorial planning.
• Committing to the running of capacity-building and knowledge-enhancement courses.
• Evaluating and revising the content of course syllabi in order to keep them up to date, enhance the effectiveness of faculty members, enrich them and make them value-oriented, and submitting the necessary proposals to the university president.
• Planning to improve students' scholarly and specialist skills in preparation for entering society.
• Monitoring and evaluating the process of implementing the national comprehensive scientific roadmap at the university, in coordination with the university president.
• Supervising the various electronic and educational systems.
• Reporting educational and research activity to the university presidency at the end of each academic year.