School Operational Plan 2022- 2024
Strategic Goals | Key Objectives | Measures | Targets | Accountability |
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Excellent | 1. Improve Quality of Education and Student Outcomes | Increase the number of commencing students | UG 5% p.a. (232.5 EFTSL) PGT 15% (19.4 EFTSL) | DHOS, AHOS-E, Course Coordinators |
Maintain SETARA Tier 6 | Inline with University | DHOS, EM, AHOS-E | ||
2. Increase Educational Innovation | Increase the percentage of units offered at Monash Malaysia meet University-wide SETU standards | 90% units with SETU Q8 of at least 3.8 | AHOS-E, Course Coordinators | |
Ensure all units participate in ESSFS | 95% agreement on all statements for all units | AHOS-E, Course Coordinators | ||
Ensure education reform agenda (fully online units, use of diverse education resources, constructive alignment, authentic assessments, pre-recorded lectures etc.) implemented | One unit per discipline per semester fully online One unit per discipline per semester use diverse and open education resources All units with constructive alignment based information in Moodle sites All units with at least 50% authentic assessments All units with lectures presented as pre-recorded bite sized versions | AHOS-E, HODs, Course Coordinators | ||
3. Outstanding Student Experience | Enhance learning through various student engagement programs (leadership, ISR, study tour etc.) | 20% of students | AHOS-E, SEEM | |
Achieve success in external design competitions | 1 international and 1 national competition award | SEEM | ||
4. Expand the Master Coursework Portfolio | Develop new Master programs | Develop MAI and MDS programs | DHOS, AHOS-E, MAI/MDS Course Coordinators | |
5. Excellence in Research Increase number of active external grants Increase number of large grants (>RM500k) (e.g. TRGS, LRGS, flagship programs, TechnoFund, CREST, Horizon, NF) Increase quantity, quality and high impact publications Increase quantity and quality of graduate research students Improve campus MyRA scores | Core performance indicators CPI'121 | Overall composite CPI'121 > 50% CPI'1 external grant > 80% CPI'2 Scopus Q1 > 90% CPI'1 GRS student > 50% | AHOS-R AHOS-R AHOS-R GRS Coordinator | |
i) Number of external grants applications ii) Grants awarded amount | ≥ 80% T&R staff submitted grant application ≥ RM36k/staff (External grant target: 1.35 million) | AHOS-R | ||
Number of submission for large grant applications (>RM500k) | ≥ 1 grant application | AHOS-R | ||
Number of high quality and high impact publications | ≥ 2 Q1-papers per staff ≥ 45% papers published in T10% journals (Citescore index) by 2022 (The number of publications target: 66 with 45 in Q1/Q2 and 33 in top 10%) | AHOS-R | ||
Number of postgraduate students enrolled, externally support, on-time completion, and research output | Maintain full capacity 50 GRS > 70% on-time completion < 2 withdrawals > 25 Q1 journal papers contributed by students > 30% of GRS funded externally (Ext grants / industry support) Increase commencing enrolment by 15% p.a. or as per load target Timely submission of thesis by 20% p.a. | GRS Coordinator | ||
Improve campus MyRA scores by 5 points p.a. | ↑ 5 points p.a. | AHOS-R, GRS Coordinator, RM | ||
6. Talent Enhancement High calibre research active staff in key research focused areas | Attract world class research fellows under STaRship and high calibre research active academic staff | Maintain and review yearly | DHOS | |
7. Excellent Career Development Environment Develop and deliver excellence career development opportunities to academic and professional staff | Provide staff development opportunities for academic and professional staff | OSP, conferences, workshop, training, mentoring scheme etc. | HOS, DHOS, AHOSs, SSM | |
International | 1. Strengthen the Monash Student Mobility Program Increase Opportunities for Inbound and Outbound Student Mobility, including International Internships 2. International Networks and Partnerships Foster collaboration between Faculty of Engineering and School of Engineering | Ensure students to have international study experience including virtual attachments | 50% of students | SEEM |
Establish international partnerships in terms of GRS supervision and research collaboration | >= 5 collaborations | GRS Coordinator | ||
Enterprising | 1. Increase Involvement of Industry in Education programs Introduce a scheme to enrich student learning via strong government, industry and alumni engagement | Establish industry partner programs with at least five top movers and shakers per discipline. | 5 for Computer Science (At least 1 in AI, 1 in Data Science, 1 in Security, 1 in IoT), 3 for Software Engineering, 2 for Information Systems | External Engagement Coordinator, SEEM |
2. Increase industry grants or contract research projects | Industry research income | Achieve at least 1 industry grant or contracted research by industry/other parties | AHOS-R, SEEM | |
Inclusive | 1. Improve Gender Balance of Academic Staff and Students Encourage more female students and staff in the School | Increase the proportion of female teaching and research staff | 50% | DHOS |
Increase the percentage of female students | 25% | AHOS-E | ||
2. Connection and Belonging Advancing ECR research career | Mentorship and support for early career researcher (ECR) | Provide adequete resources and support for ECR | AHOS-R, RM |
Abbreviation:
- HOS: HOS Head of School
- DHoS: Deputy Head of School
- AHoS-E: Associate Head of School (Education)
- AHoS-R: Associate Head of School (Research)
- GRS Coordinator: Graduate Research Student Coordinator
- SSM: Senior School Manager
- EM: Education Manager
- RM: Research Manager
- LM: Lab Manager
- CM: Course Manager
- OBE: Outcome Based Education
- CQI: Continuous Quality Improvement
- EEM: External Engagement Manager
- SEE: Student Experience and Engagement Manager