In accordance respectively with Articles 12 and 13 of the Regulations of the Department of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Sciences, the Joint Student–Staff Committee e la Student Guidance and Tutoring Committee are hereby established within this structure.
- The Joint Student–Staff Committee operates within the Department and is chaired by one of its academic members. It is composed equally of student representatives elected to the Department Council and an equal number of academic staff members affiliated with the Department, elected by the Council, ensuring, where possible, representation across all Degree Programmes. Members also include one member of the PhD Academic Board and one PhD candidate.
The Committee contributes to monitoring and continuous enhancement of teaching quality and educational provision, providing feedback on teaching programmes and on the processes for the activation, modification and discontinuation of Degree Programmes.
The Committee promotes the dissemination of the University’s quality policies among students.
The Committee ensures the monitoring of educational provision, teaching quality and student services delivered by academic staff, based on information contained in the SUA-CdS and other available data sources.
The Committee analyses the outcomes of student and PhD candidate feedback surveys, contributing to the identification of critical issues and the definition of improvement actions.
The Committee prepares an annual report reviewing the overall educational activities of the Department (including PhD programmes), highlighting critical issues and proposing improvement actions to the relevant governing bodies.
- In addition to participating in orientation events promoted by the University, the Student Guidance and Tutoring Committee carries out guidance activities both at the level of individual degree programmes and at the departmental level.
Guidance activities fall into three main areas:
- incoming guidance, aimed at presenting the University’s educational offer in order to enable prospective students to make an informed choice about their course of study, through the organisation of and participation in orientation events, information activities, and continuous relations with the regional, extra-regional and cross-border school systems;
- ongoing guidance, aimed at containing the phenomena of dropout and attrition, delay, and the gap between the standard duration and the actual duration of the study programme, by eliminating or at least reducing the obstacles that hinder effective attendance;
- outgoing guidance, aimed at developing initiatives and project-based activities designed to support young people during the transition from education to employment, including assisted pathways for entry into the labour market and under a specific authorisation regime for labour-market intermediation.
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- Furthermore, within the PhD Programme in Chemical Sciences, the PhD Quality Assurance Group Committee is established.