The Teaching
and professional council is the highest professional authority of the School.
The teaching
and professional council (hereinafter: referred to as the Council) consists of
all teachers (in the profession of professors of applied studies, senior
lecturers, lecturers, foreign language teachers and teachers of the skills) who
are employed in the School (they have concluded a work contract with the
School). Members of the Council are also associates in the title of assistant
and assistant with a doctorate. Assistants and assistants with a doctorate do
not participate in the voting for the election in teaching titles.
In
discussing and deciding on issues related to quality assurance of teaching,
reforming of study programs, analyzing the efficiency of studying and
determining the number of ECTS points, student representatives, delegated by
the Student Parliament, participate in the work of the Council and its professionalauthorities. When discussing and deciding on
the above mentioned issues, student representatives represent20%of
the members of the Council, that is, 20% of the members of the professionalauthorities formed by the Council.
The Council
is chaired by the Director of the School or by the person authorized by the
Director of the School. The method of work and decision-making of the Teaching
and professional Council is regulated by the Statute of the School and by the
Rules of Procedure of The Teaching and professional council.
The Council makes
its decisions by a majority of the votes of the total number of members
attending the session of the Council , unless otherwise its provided by the
Statute or Rules of Procedure. The quorum
for the session of the Council exists if the majority of the members of the
Council attend the session.
The Council may, if necessary,
establish professional bodies in order to consider certain issues on which the Council
decides.
Competencies
of the Teaching Council:
establishes the
proposal of the Statute of the School and proposals for its amendments and
forward them to the School Council for decision-making;
submit to the
School Council an opinion on the candidates who applied for the selection of
the Director of the School;
proposes to the School
Council to decide on the education or the abolition of a special organizational
unit or a special legal entity from Article 4. paragraphs 9. and 10. of the
Statute of the School, proposes to the School Council persons for appointment
to management bodies, or for representatives in the management bodies of legal
entities founded by the School;
establishes a
list of narrow professional areas that
are being studied in the School on the proposal of the Working Group on
Accreditation;
adopts changes to
the curricula of existing study programs and curricula for new study programs,
on the proposal of the Working Group on Accreditation;
proposes to the
School Council the formation of new programs of studies, that is, the number
and title of study programs for further accreditation;
makes a decision
to cancel the program of studies on the proposal of the school director or the
School Council;
proposes to the
School Council a financial plan for the School, a business report and an annual
account, a plan for using funds for investments, independently or by appointing
a person, expert service or other body of the School, which will formulate and
propose to the School Council the enactment of the acts listed in this item;
proposes to the
school director the composition of the commission for writing the papers for
the selection of teaching titles;
chooses teachers
and associates;
analyzes the
quality of teaching, the efficiency of studying and progress of students,
monitors and performs the reform of programs of studies;
examines student
complaints and suggestions regarding the quality of the educational process and
the organization and manner of teaching, and responds to complaints and
proposals submitted;
makes decisions
on recognition of exams to students and determines the number of ECTS points
based on recognized exams;
gives consent on
the topics of final, specialist and master work and forms commissions for the
defense of final, specialist and master work of
students;
sets up lifelong learning
programs, short programs of study and studying at work;
monitors and
improves the teaching process, considers reports on the realization of
teaching;
makes decisions that regulate unforeseen situations
(anomalies) in realization of the teaching process, in order to eliminate or
mitigate the negative consequences of such anomalies in relation to the quality
of teaching;
determines the
engagement of teachers on subjects, on the proposal of the Collegium;
discusses and
approves the proposals of the School Director for approving the participation
of teachers and associates at scientific and professional meetings;
establishes a list of members for each
organizational unit of the study program, on the proposal of the Collegium;
adopts the
schedule of classes, on the proposal of the Director of the School or persons
appointed by the Director of the School;
decides on issues
related to publishing activities;
examines the
questions of enrollment of new students, enrollment of students for a higher
year of study;
establishes a
proposal for the amount of scholarship and sends it to the School Council for
adoption;
adopts the Code
of Professional Ethics;
performs other
tasks in accordance with the law, the Statute and other general acts of the
School.