{"id":93,"date":"2016-04-08T13:42:47","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T11:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/itm-management\/?p=93"},"modified":"2016-04-08T13:42:47","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T11:42:47","slug":"its-time-again-for-the-gas-weekly-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/itm-management\/2016\/04\/its-time-again-for-the-gas-weekly-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s time again for the GA\u2019s weekly blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is a GA (Directors of First and Second Cycle Education) meeting tomorrow (April 6) and this is probably the right time to tell you a bit about the constellation. At regular intervals (8-10 times a year) all the GA directors (10) at KTH meet with Vice Dean Per Berglund, Carina Kj\u00f6rling and student union representatives to discuss a range of issues. It is an important information exchange channel for schools and one of the few real opportunities to forge a consensus on many of our education issues.<\/p>\n

The discussions are often very productive and it has developed from being purely a KTH information channel for its schools to a working organisation. The GA directors are all extremely well-informed about their respective school\u2019s programmes, courses, possibilities and problems. Tomorrow\u2019s topics discussion include the cross-programme project courses and LEQ (course evaluations). Another key issue is the \u201cspecial entry requirements for courses\u201d which could be a means to manage the students\u2019 progression through our programmes. A good new model is for two GA directors to meet with Per and Carina before each GA meeting to discuss the issues on the agenda. This will help bring everybody up to date. Maybe it\u2019s time for the group to shoulder more responsibility, for the quality improvement work at KTH, for instance.<\/p>\n

As members of the GA group we also have the chance to reflect over matters and decisions raised at the Education Committee (UU) meeting which, among other things, is currently tackling the introduction\/wind-up of programmes at KTH. As you may already know, the School of Industrial Engineering and Management (ITM) has sent an application to launch a new university engineering programme in S\u00f6dert\u00e4lje with the working title \u201dIndustriell h\u00e5llbarhet och drifts\u00e4kerhet\u201d (\u201cIndustrial sustainability and operating reliability\u201d). We will have to wait and see the end result. Finding a suitable name for new programmes is not easy. It needs to be both \u201cselling\u201d and appropriate.<\/p>\n

Another important issue is the work on the syllabuses for our programmes. Anyway, we have already made a start on it and this is where we can implement longer-term improvements and fine-tune their learning outcomes and structures.<\/p>\n

As Hans Havtun is the new programme director of the Energy and Sustainable Environment programme I would like to take the opportunity to thank Maria Malmstr\u00f6m who has done a tremendous job for many years and welcome Hans on-board. I know that he is extremely enthusiastic about teaching issues and we need teachers who are, trust me. Naturally we hope that Maria continues to show dedication as a teacher on the programme.<\/p>\n

Best regards<\/p>\n

Per Lundqvist, GA<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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