faculty of agriculture in osijek 1960 Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek FACULTY OF AGRICULTURE IN OSIJEK TION 2012 ALUA SELF-EV REPORT Self-Evaluation Report 2012 Name of higher education institution: Faculty of Agriculture in Osijek (further in the text: Faculty of Agriculture, the Faculty; PFO) Name of university of which the institution is a Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek constituent: (further in the text: the University of Osijek, the University) Year of establishment: 1960 Adress: Kralja Petra Svačića 1 d, HR-31000 Osijek, Croatia Phone: +385 31 554 800 Fax: +385 31 554 853 Web adress: http://www.pfos.unios.hr E-mail: [email protected] Title and name of the head of HEI: Prof. Dr. Vlado Guberac, Full Professor, Dean Bank name and account number: Hypo Alpe Adria Bank, 2500009-1102019470 Contents 1. HEI Management and Quality Assurance ..................................................... 1 1.1. Development of the Faculty ..................................................................................................... 1 1.2. Internal organisational structure of the Faculty ....................................................................... 3 1.2.1. Diagram of internal organisational structure .................................................................. 3 1.2.2. Structure of the Faculty management .......................................................................... 12 1.3. Elements of Faculty integration within Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek ............13 1.4. Assurance of ethical behaviour in activities related to research, teaching and student relations ..............................................................................................................14 1.5. Mission and vision of the Faculty as of the adopted strategy ................................................15 1.6. Particularity of the Faculty compared to similar Croatian institutions in the area of Biotechnical sciences ........................................................................................17 1.7. Overlapping in activities of the Faculty with similar institutions at Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek ............................................................................................18 1.8. Faculty Strategy and procedures for quality assurance of scientific and teaching activities .18 1.9. Bodies dealing with quality assurance and their activities in the last 5 years........................19 1.10. Main strategic goals of the management planned to be achieve in its current mandate .....20 1.11. Main advantages and disadvantages of programme, staff and material potentials ..............21 1.12. Experiences from previous external evaluation .......................................................................23 1.13. Comparison with international HE institutions ......................................................................24 1.14. Participation in making decisions of public interest ...............................................................24 1.15. Satisfaction with the current situation and proposals for possible improvements ...............33 2. Study Programmes .................................................................................... 36 2.1. Configuration of study programmes .......................................................................................36 2.2. Overlaps of study programmes with similar study programmes at other constituent units of the University of Osijek ..............................................................................................43 2.3. Criteria for proposing enrolment quotas for study programmes and their suitability ..........43 2.4. Pass rate in the first year of undergraduate and professional studies ...................................44 2.5. Methodology for setting of learning outcomes while planning study programmes ..............45 2.6. Goals used to set learning outcomes ......................................................................................45 2.7. Comparison of allocated ECTS credits with realistic assessment of student workload .........46 2.8. Competences of graduates from the Faculty of Agriculture with similar study programme at prominent European HE institutions ..............................................................49 2.9. Monitoring and improvement of study programmes and their adaptation to new trends in research ...................................................................................................................49 2.10. Justifiability of carrying out professional study programmes ................................................50 2.11. Methods of checking class attendance ...................................................................................50 2.12. Teaching methods and implementation of practical and field work at the Faculty ................51 2.13. Realisation of teaching outside of the Faculty ........................................................................53 2.14. Availability and quality of study programmes’ online contents .............................................54 2.15. Faculty's overall study programme concept ...........................................................................55 2.16. Lifelong learning programmes offered by the Faculty ...........................................................55 2.17. System for recognition of prior competences and system for academic recognition of foreign higher education qualifications ..................................................................................56 2.18. Formal mechanisms for approval, review and monitoring of study programmes .................56 2.19. Self-accreditation of study programmes ................................................................................57 2.20. Satisfaction with the current situation and proposals for possible improvements ...............57 3. Students .................................................................................................... 78 3.1. Quality and structure of applicants and enrolled students ....................................................78 3.2. Student pass rate within study programmes ..........................................................................79 3.3. Informing of potential students about the Faculty and study programmes ..........................80 3.4. Assessment of learning outcomes and assurance of objectivity and fairness during exams .80 3.5. Opinions of students about relations between students and teachers .................................81 3.6. Students’ accommodation, subsistence and extra-curricular activities .................................81 3.7. Measures for motivation of students .....................................................................................82 3.8. Supportive measures for students ..........................................................................................82 3.9. Regulations on protection of student rights ...........................................................................83 3.10. Methods for reaching out to alumni .......................................................................................83 3.11. Satisfaction with the current situation and proposals for possible improvements ...............84 4. Teaching staff ............................................................................................ 87 4.1. Structure of teachers and associates ......................................................................................87 4.2. Teacher / student ratio .........................................................................................................104 4.3. Teaching workload of full-time and part-time teachers .......................................................105 4.4. Formal procedures for monitoring of teachers’ part-time employment .............................107 4.5. Student groups for lectures, seminars, exercises and other forms of teaching ...................107 4.6. Indicators for assessment of full-time and part-time teachers’ competences ....................108 4.7. Methods of professional support to full-time and part-time teachers in the field of training and improving teaching competences ................................................................111 4.8. Measures introduced to encourage better motivation of teachers .....................................112 4.9. Teaching materials ................................................................................................................112 4.10. Satisfaction with the current situation and proposals for possible improvements .............117 5. Scientific and Professional Activity .......................................................... 118 5.1. Strategy of scientific research ...............................................................................................118 5.2. Impact factors of journals where teachers publish their papers ..........................................120 5.3. The most important scientific articles for the Faculty ..........................................................123 5.4. The most important books of the authors employed by the Faculty ...................................127 5.5. Criteria for scientific productivity of doctoral dissertation mentors ....................................129 5.6. The Faculty policy for development of junior researchers ...................................................133 5.7. Number of scientific publications resulting