School Operational Plan 2023 - 2024
Impact 2030 Strategic Theme and Objective | Campus Goal | Priority Initiatives | Measures | Targets | Accountability | Risk |
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Excellent | EE1: Monash Malaysia is the preferred choice for Undergraduate and Postgraduate courses in Asia | Excellent degrees and programs 1.1 Identify and introduce new future-focused Undergraduate and Postgraduate courses, with Postgraduate courses offered in a range of flexible delivery modes | Introduce new courses that are market driven and in areas of demand and of national and global interest | UG or GPG specialization, 1 course in 2025 and 1 course in 2026 | DHOS-E, HODs | 1,3,5 |
Introduce postgraduate coursework (GPG) short courses and micro-credentialing to expand GPG offerings | 1 per department without an offering | DHOS-E, HODs | 1,3,5 | |||
Increase commencing load | GPG increase by 20% per annum UG increase by 5% per annum | DHOS-E, HODs, CDs, H-CE, SSM | 1,3,5 | |||
Transformative teaching and learning
| a) Increase student Retention b) Sustained SETU performance | PG retention exceeds 95% UG retention at least 95% 90% units with SETU Q8 of at least 3.8 | DHOS-E, HODs, CDs, H-CE | 1,3,5 | ||
Graduate outcomes increase year on year | Mean Graduate Salary increase > Inflation Rate (CPI), Graduate Employability base on MOHE website data >90% | DHOS-E, HODs, CDs | 1,3,5 | |||
EE2: Monash Malaysia educators are the thought-leaders in innovative education in Asia | Inspiring educators 1.4 Introduce a program of opportunities for educators to take up ‘education focused secondments’ to work on education related projects including Change Champions | Change Champions deliver outcomes and meet/exceed expectations | Minimum must meet | DHOS-E | 3 | |
Academic Team Leaders appointed to Monash Innovation Guarantee and Research Experimentation & Discovery. | 1 per department | DHOS-E, HODs | 3 | |||
EE3: Monash Malaysia is known for rich educational experiences that prepare our students to be ready for professions and demands of the future and make them the preferred choice for the best employers School focus : Outstanding student experience | Rich education experiences 1.5 Introduce a series of industry focused skill development opportunities for students | Courses have industry focused skill development opportunities for students | 1 for each course by 2025 | DHOS-E, HODs, CDs | 3,4 | |
Student experience feedback | Exceeds expectations | DHOS-E, DGOS-R, HODs, CDs, H-CE., Academics | 3,4 | |||
Number of Students to participate at least one Student Experience activities | 50% of students by 2024 | HODs, SEEM, SSM | 3,4 | |||
ER1: Monash Malaysia is a valuable partner to Malaysian and Southeast Asian industries, government and not-for-profits (‘industry’ for short), for research and development | Address the global challenges
| Industry PhD cohort (i.e. funded or co-funded by external organisations) 20% of total cohort | 1 per discipline from 2025 | HODs, AHOS-GR, DHOS-R | 2,6,9 | |
Increase industry-based research funding | 15% year-on-year | HODS, DHOS-R | 2,6,9 | |||
Attract diversified external income and continue to grow existing research income & Accelerate talent 2.2 Establish a supercharged ‘sandbox’ to accelerate industry partnerships | Industry partnership in the sandbox | 3 by 2026 | DHOS-R, IEIC | 2,6,9 | ||
Industry-funded projects that flow from the sandbox projects | 2 by 2026 | DHOS-R, IEIC | 2,6,9 | |||
ER2: Monash Malaysia is a hub for impactful research benefiting Malaysia and the Southeast Asian region | 2.3 Identify and support multidisciplinary centres of excellence that act as a focus for securing mission-based and other large-scale regional and global funding | Establishment of excellence at MUM headed by SOE | at least 1 centres by 2026 | DHOS-R | 2,5,6,9 | |
Accelerate talent 2.4 Campus performance targets to prioritise impact and quality | Implement School research performance targets | Overall composite CPI'123 > 75% CPI'1 external grant > 80% CPI'2 ISI-Q1> 80% CPI'3 GRS students >70% At least 75% articles published in Scopus Q1 journals | HODS, DHOS-R | 5 | ||
ER3: Monash Malaysia will be known throughout Malaysia and the Southeast Asian region as an innovator, for industrial, government and community partners | Deliver exceptional internal support 2.5 Fully implement, consolidate and leverage The Generator at Monash Malaysia | Spinoff companies) | SOE to have 1 spinoff or startup company by 2026 | DHOS-R, IEIC | 2,5,6,9 | |
2.6 Establish an incubator program at Monash Malaysia, to accelerate the commercialisation of research | Incubator program is established. | Yearly offering of school's i-celerator (incubation accelerator) program | IEIC | 2,5,6,9 | ||
International | IN1: Monash Malaysia will be the key destination for international students from Asia and beyond | Diversification & Maintenance of operating surplus 3.1 Strengthen and/or develop new marketing, recruitment and admissions strategies to expand our pool of international students from South Asia and China | Increase in commencing international UG + GPG students | China by 20% per annum South Asia by 20% per annum | DHOS-E, HODs, CDs, H-CE, SSM | 1,9 |
3.2 Develop and implement effective marketing and recruitment strategies to establish market presence and recruit international students from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) regions and other identified priority markets as they emerged | Increase in commencing international UG + GPG students | Middle East and North Africa (MENA) by 30% per annum | DHOS-E, HODs, CDs, H-CE, SSM | 1,9 | ||
IN2: Monash Malaysia graduates will be responsible and effective global citizens who can engage in an internationalised world and demonstrate cross-cultural competence | Rich educational experiences & Excellent degrees and programs 3.3 Enhance study abroad and immersion opportunities and embed these opportunities through a range of semester-length, Monash Global Campus Intensives (MGCI), study tours and immersion programs (such as the Monash Immersion Guarantee) in all Undergraduate courses | Study abroad component or opportunities built-in to the degree | by 2026 | DHOS-E, HODs, CDs | 1,3,5,6 | |
UG students will have an international study experience during their degree | 2024 - 30% of students 2025 - 40% of students 2026 - 50% of students | DHOS-E, SEEM | 1,3,5,6 | |||
Increase in inbound exchange numbers | 2024 - 5% of students 2025 - 5% of students 2026 - 10% of students | DHOS-E, HODs, CDs | 1,3,5,6 | |||
Increase in inbound fee paying mobility numbers | 2024 - 150% per annum 2025 - 40% per annum 2026 - 40% per annum | DHOS-E, HODs, CDs | 1,3,5,6 | |||
Rich educational experiences 3.4 Upscale research abroad mobility opportunities for all graduate research students | Number of PhD students participating in international mobility (Campus-Global Mobility Program, School-GRE, VC Inter-campus travelling grant, etc) | 2024 - 20% 2025 - 25% 2025 - 30% | AHOS-GR | 1,2,3,5,6 | ||
IN3: Monash Malaysia will develop its international networks to promote education and research excellence through strategic internationalisation initiatives / partnerships | Excellent degrees and programs 3.5 Develop a portfolio of educational linkages with partners from Asia and around the world | Develop educational partnerships with education institutions from Asia and around the world | At least 1 by 2025 | DHOS-E | 5,6,9 | |
Develop educational programs that could be offered to students from other institutions | At least 1 by 2025 | DHOS-E, HODs | 5,6,9 | |||
Deliver exceptional internal support & Attract diversified external income and continue to grow existing research income 3.6 Develop international networks for research collaborations to increase the visibility of our research capabilities and researchers | Increase in international research funding | RM2m in 2024 RM4m in 2025 RM6m in 2026 | DHOS-R, HODs | 2,5,6,9 | ||
MUM SDG-related publications (articles only) that have non-Monash and non-Malaysian co-authorship | Increase 5% per annum in proportion | HOD, DHOS-R | 2,5,6,9 | |||
Accelerate talent 3.7 Establish a Visiting Scholar program to attract researchers to MUM to conduct collaborative research with MUM researchers | Visiting Scholars on board through sabbatical attachment, VPS (Visiting Professor Scheme), Visiting Fellow Scheme (VFS) or short-term visit. | At least 2 scholars per annum | DHOS-R, HODs | 2,6 | ||
Enterprising | EN1: Monash Malaysia is known as a provider of high quality professional development / executive education in select areas that align to Impact 2030 and campus aspirations | Excellent degrees and programs & Rich educational experiences 4.1 Partner with a select group of organisations in Malaysia, Australia and the Southeast Asian region, to develop a series of Professional Certificates that act as a focal point for professional development activities (e.g. ESG Academy, Net Zero Academy) | Participate in Professional Certification from a fee paying cohort from an industry or government based organisation | 30 in 2024 40 in 2025 50 in 2026 | DHOS-E, HODs, CD of MAppE | 5,6,9 |
4.2 Develop a Masters course (with Graduate Diploma and Graduate Certificate exit points) that is specifically targeted to the needs of Malaysian industry, and then ‘segment’ all units into 4, allowing each unit to be delivered as a one day intensive for professional development or executive education | Develop masters program | 1 by 2026 6 units with 4 x 1-day intensives are developed | DHOS-E, HODs, CD of MAppE | 1,5,9 | ||
EN3: Monash Malaysia is known as a provider of high quality research services (i.e. analysis) via its research platforms | Deliver exceptional internal support 4.5 Consolidate the financial and strategic plans for current research platforms | Research platforms have financial and strategic plans that work towards being revenue positive | Implement in 2024 | Platform Director | 2,6,9 | |
Attract diversified external income and continue to grow existing research income 4.6 Promote the services of the research platforms, especially within Malaysia | Increase external uptake of platform services | increase 10% annually | Platform Director | 2,6,9 | ||
Inclusive | IC1: Monash Malaysia is known as an inclusive university that provides a safe environment for diverse students and staff to thrive and provides educational opportunities for communities who are underrepresented in higher education | 5.1 Establish governance mechanisms to set Monash Malaysia’s agenda for a new intersectional, whole-of-campus approach to furthering equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) | Implement / adopt MUM’s EDI Enabling Plan 2024-2026 | by end of 2024 | School Chair of EDI | 5,7 |
IC3: Monash Malaysia is known as a leader for accessible, inclusive and equitable education in Malaysia | 5.4 Develop educator awareness and capabilities in inclusive education practices and universal design | MUM educators present inclusive practices at international education conferences | at least 1 per annum | DHOS-E | 7 |
Abbreviation:
HOS | Head of School |
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DHoS-E | Deputy Head of School (Education) |
DHoS-R | Deputy Head of School (Research) |
AHOS-GR | Associate Head of School (Graduate Research) |
HOD | Head of Discipline |
SSM | Senior School Manager |
EM | Education Manager |
RC | Research Coordinator |
LM | Lab Manager |
IEIC | Industry Engagement and Innovation Coordinator |
EAC | Engineering Accreditation Council Malaysia |
OBE | Outcome Based Education |
EA | Engineers Australia |
CQI | Continuous Quality Improvement |
UROP | Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program |
EWB | Engineers Without Borders |
MAppE | Master of Applied Engineering |
ECR | Early Career Researcher |
SEEM | Student Engagement & Experience Manager |
CD | Course Directors |
H-CE | Head of Common Engineering |