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10.1 Stakeholders’ needs and feedback serve as input to curriculum design and development
The needs of stakeholders for the PhD programme are quite obvious as the PhD programme aims at producing professional researchers. The feedback which we obtained from the graduates’ bosses also assures us that we are on the right track. They have been satisfied with the quality of our graduates (See Appendix 23_ graduates’ boss interview). The results from the questionnaire given to the bosses of two graduates, one in Thailand and the other in China proved that the programme was able to produce graduates which are competent and able to work well as both of the bosses rated 5 for all the categories (See Appendix 24_Questionnaire for Employer). Teachers, supervisors, and the programme also use feedback obtained from students through the formal academic interviews and progress reports as well as informal talk to adapt the courses and the teaching and learning styles regularly.
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10.2 The curriculum design and development process is established and subjected to evaluation and enhancement.
It is required by OHEC that every five years, any curriculum has to go through reviews. This procedure ensures that evaluation from external reviewers is needed and it helps improve the quality of the curriculum. At the end of the semester, the course and the teaching evaluation is done based on the university regulation. The programme also run an academic interview twice a semester to collect students’ feedback about the course and at the end of the academic year, the Programme Chair collects data about the programme evaluation to write a programme report.
10.3 The teaching and learning processes and student assessment are continuously reviewed and evaluated to ensure their relevance and alignment
It is required by the university that all the courses offered in each semester have to submit the teaching plan before the semester starts and to report the results after the semester ends; the report includes assessment and how the teachers’ evaluate the course. Programme report is conducted at the end of the academic year by the Programme Chair. The Programme Chair will analyse if there is any problems from teaching, activities provided and assessment. The analysis can provide information for further improvement.
10.4 Research output is used to enhance teaching and learning
So far research output mainly deals with knowledge and the process of learning and publishing papers especially the ones related to their research topics. In some courses, students are encouraged to do assignments that could be published. Research outputs are parts of the programme requirements or requirements for graduation. The research outputs in fact reflect the quality of the programme A (See Appendix 25_ Student’s publications_ 2559).
Figure 10.4 Students’ Publication
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| Year 2557 | Year 2558 | Year 2559 | ||||||||||||||||
| NC | IC | NJ | IJ | etc | Total | NC | IC | NJ | IJ | etc | Total | NC | IC | NJ | IJ | etc | Total | |
| PhD | - | 7 | - | 1 | 1 | 9 | - | - | 1 | 3 | - | 4 | - | 4 | - | 3 | - | 7 |
– National Conference (NC)
– International Conference (IC)
– National Journal (NJ)
– International Journal (IJ)
– etc. (Book, Poster, Presentation, Other…)
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| Year 2557 | Year 2558 | Year 2559 | ||||||||||||||||
| NC | IC | NJ | IJ | etc | Total | NC | IC | NJ | IJ | etc | Total | NC | IC | NJ | IJ | etc | Total | |
| PhD | - | 2.8 | - | 0.8 | 0.1 | 3.7 | - | - | 0.4 | 2.4 | - | 2.8 | - | 1.6 | - | 2.4 | - | 4 |
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10.5 Quality of support services and facilities (at the library, laboratory, IT facility and student services) is subjected to evaluation and enhancement.
Survey is conducted every academic year on support services and facilities and at the end of the academic interview sessions (See samples of Academic interview results in Appendix 26_Academic interview samples). The results are used to improve the service, e.g. the books in the library are ordered from the students’ request. The computers in the common room are replaced with the new ones every five years. Students can also contact the technicians when help is needed. There are also a Learning Technology Units to provide technological support to students. The programme also invited guest lecturers to run workshops about useful programmes for students to support their data analysis, presentation, and statistical interpretation.
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10.6 The stakeholder’s feedback mechanisms are systematic and subjected to evaluation and enhancement
The survey to get feedback from the students on the courses provided and supervision is conducted every semester so that we can see if the students have improved and we can respond to their needs. The feedback obtained would be sent to the Programme Chair and to the people involved, for example, the teacher, the supervisor, the head of Department, etc. so that each person could use the feedback to check the action and react appropriately.
Feedback from the bosses of the graduates is conducted only when we have student graduates from the programme.