Postgraduate education council

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Members of the council:

  • Dr. Afrouz Mardi, the chairman of the council
  • Dr. Nategh Abbasgholizadeh, the vice chairman of the council
  • Dr. Davoud Adham, member of the council
  • Dr. Seyyed Ahmad Mokhtari, member of the council
  • Shahla Moradi, the secretary of the council

 

The tasks and responsibilities of the council based on the educational regulations of discontinuous master’s degree programs:

  1. Confirming the students’ passing of deficiency or compensatory courses after the verification of the related educational department
  2. Organizing the courses to be offered to the students with regard to prerequisite courses, planning the students’ educational program during their academic years, monitoring teaching methods employed in the school, changing the syllabuses of the courses, andadding new materials to the courses within the framework approved by the supreme council of planningallafter the agreement of the related educational department
  3. Confirming the courses taken by students with the value of up to maximum 16 credits after the agreement of the related educational department
  4. Determining the justifiability of absences from the course classes based on the evidences provided by the student and the professor’s report with reference to article 10 of the educational regulations
  5. Confirming the deletion of a course for thestudents whose absences exceed the level specified in article 10 of the educational regulations or whose absences are justified as determined by the school and its education council
  6. Determining the justifiability of students’ absence from final exam sessions
  7. Adding at most one semester to the total permissible semesters for students for the completion of the degree on the demand of the supervisor in exceptional cases
  8. Confirming the justifiability of the students’ temporary withdrawals and considering them as educational leave according to article 15 of the educational regulations
  9. Accepting the requests for educational leave in the first semester in exceptional cases with the agreement of the related educational department 
  10. Verifying medical certificates presented by the students and considering maximum one semester as sick leave for themwithout counting it as an educational semester
  11. Approving the topicsproposed by students fortheir thesis projects (students are obliged to decide on the topic of their thesis project after finishing the first semester and before beginning the 3rd semester with the help of their supervisors)
  12. Confirming the supervisors of students’ thesis projects
  13. Confirming the selection of supervisors form other universities in special cases in which it is inevitable as recognized by the related educational department
  14. Confirming the selection of supervisors from among the instructors of the university with at least 10 years of teaching and research experience in special cases where the number of assistant professors is either zero or less than enough
  15. Deciding on the simultaneous supervision of more than one thesis project by a faculty memberaccording to sections A and B of article 22 of educational regulations
  16. Confirming the suggestion of the supervisor on the selection of 1 or 2 faculty members, scholars, or researchers familiar with the thesis topic as the advisors
  17. Sending one of the membersof the council as the representative to thesis defense sessions and choosing 2 people from among the faculty members, specialists, or researchers either from inside or outside of the university as the observers on the suggestion of the related department with the right to vote (Students are allowed to defend their thesis only if they have successfully passed all of the educational courses and if the completion of their thesis has been formally announced by the supervisor to the school’s postgraduate education council.)
  18. Confirming the students’ taking some courses in other universities as guest students in cases where a course is not offered in the university on the suggestion of the supervisor and the agreement of the related educational department (In such cases, obtaining the agreement of the target university is also required. The number of the credits passed as the guest student in another university cannot exceed half of the total credits required to complete a degree.)
  19. Dealing legally with students who violate the provisions of article 30 of the educational regulations (being a full-time student at postgraduate levels)

 

Last Update At : 16 September 2021