School Operational Plan 2023-2024
| Strategic Goals | Key Objectives | Measures | Targets | Accountability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Excellent | 1. Improve Quality of Education and Student Outcomes | Increase the number of commencing students | UG 5% p.a. PGT 15% | 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 (Remark: Might need to be revised if the SETU questions are changed) | 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 Develop and implement a Beyond 2020 online experience for all coursework courses to include learning experiences, open educational resources (OER) and authentic assessment. | 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 Student satisfaction with digital learning resources averages 95%. Achieve an average of 95% agreement in relation to student satisfaction with Unit Moodle sites. | AHOS-E, HODs, Course Coordinators | ||
| 3. Outstanding Student Experience | Enhance learning through various student engagement programs (leadership, ISR, study tour etc.) | 25%, 37% and 50% of students in 2022, 2023 and 2024 to at least be involved in one engagement activity during their studies | AHOS-E, SEEM | |
| Achieve success in external design competitions | 1 international and 1 national competition award | SEEM | ||
4. 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'123 | Overall composite CPI'123 > 50% CPI'1 external grant > 80% CPI'2 Papers in FQL > 90% CPI'3 GRS student > 70% | 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 FQL papers per staff ≥ 47% papers published in T10% journals (Citescore index) by 2023 | AHOS-R | ||
| Number of postgraduate students enrolled, externally support, on-time completion, and research output | Maintain full capacity 50 GRS > 80% on-time completion 70% of GRS completions with FQJL/top conference publications > 30% of GRS funded externally (Ext grants / industry support) Increase commencing enrolment by 15% p.a. or as per load target | GRS Coordinator | ||
| By December 2024, our MyRA score (based on the current glossary) will be above 90. | 2022: 85 2023: 87 2024: 90 | AHOS-R, GRS Coordinator, RM | ||
5. Talent Enhancement High calibre research active staff in key research focused areas | Attract high calibre research active academic staff | Maintain and review yearly | DHOS | |
6. 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. invest in training, development and curriculum design programs for teachers, partnering with external providers | 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 Undertake outstanding fundamental research and translational research that contribute to nation building in the ASEAN region. | Ensure students to have international study experience including virtual attachments | 50% of students | AHOS-E, SEEM, EM |
| MoU and research collaboration activities | Establish collaboration with top universities in ASEAN countries and world's class top universities | AHOS-R | ||
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, IEIC | |
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