Starting the spring semester, the current instruction regarding the ongoing pandemic from our Vice Chancellor is to:
- work from home until the first of July,
- campus teaching and campus examination should be conducted digitally and held to a minimum until end of March, exemptions are still used and may also be reconsidered
At TS, the corona-based management group continue to meet once a week to sort out questions on, for instance, interpretation and adaptation of decisions taken by the Vice Chancellor, Canvas course registrations, struggles with computer lab configurations, and so much more. For the latest updates, continue to regularly follow https://staff.mau.se/first-page/puffs/recommendations-regarding-the-novel-coronavirus-covid-19/.
As you know, the vice chancellor decided about the installation of doctoral degree rights for Applied Physics just before Christmas. That means that TS is entrusted with a second degree right on the doctoral level. This in turn, raises questions about how the research education is managed and supported at our faculty. Thus, the board of research and doctoral education, FFN, has given the Dean and a small group of representatives from research and doctoral education the assignment to suggest reinforcements.
Soon, you will receive a survey about your thoughts on internal communication at TS. You are all encouraged to answer it, as this will be integral input into our process of developing the internal communication plan at our faculty. Of course, the more and better you answer on the survey, the more you will benefit from this in the long run.
Two of the free standing courses at TS are on the list of the most searched courses at MAU. Web development and Programming in C#. Congratulations and good work!
Also, the two MTM engineering degrees in Maskin- och materialteknik and Produktutveckling och design have successfully been externally evaluated. For more information, see https://medarbetare.mau.se/startsida/medarbetarnyheter/ukas-granskning-av-utbildningar-fardig/.