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Other related activities

Support of students and employees

Other related activities carried out at UCM are those policies, structures, and processes that lead to the fulfilment of the objectives and outcomes of education, the enhancement of the quality of education and creative activity, and the personal and professional development of both students and employees at UCM. They consist mainly of activities that create support, facilities, and optimal conditions for UCM students and employees. 

Other related activities at UCM are carried out and evaluated in accordance with clear principles:

  1. Students have easy access to information resources, library collections, and services that match the learning outcomes, the focus of creative activities, and the number of students.
  2. Students have easy access to counselling and other support services and administrative resources that meet their diverse needs and are a prerequisite for progress in their studies and personal and career development.
  3. Resources are accessible to students and students are informed of their accessibility.
  4. Tutoring, counselling, administrative and other support services, and related activities for students are provided by qualified support staff whose capacity is appropriate to the number of students and their diverse needs.
  5. Students have adequate social security and adequate sporting, cultural, spiritual, and social activities during their studies.
  6. Students, staff, and applicants are protected against any kind of intolerance and discrimination.
  7. The professional development of teachers, scientists, researchers, artists, and other staff is supported, particularly in the areas of professional, language, digital skills, transferable competencies, and personal development.
  8. The internationalisation of UCM is promoted, especially the development of inter-university relations and the mobility of students and staff.
  9. The spatial, material, technical, personnel, financial, infrastructural, and institutional provision of other related activities is adequate, corresponding to the learning outcomes, the number of students, and their specific needs.
  10. Information for the strategic, tactical, and operational management of the implementation and development of study programmes, creative activities, and other related activities is collected, processed, analysed, and evaluated.

Policies of VSK UCM ensuring the quality and development of education at UCM in the field of other related activities at UCM. They have an institution-wide scope. They are based on international and national standards, in particular the European Standards for Higher Education ESG 2015, the Higher Education Act and subsequent regulations, the Quality Act and subsequent regulations, and the SAAVS standards for the internal system and curriculum. They are in line with UCM’s mission, UCM’s long-term plan, and other strategic and conceptual documents of UCM. In justified cases, the institution-wide internal regulations are followed by the internal regulations of the UCM divisions, in particular in the case of the customs and specificities of the SPs in which the SPs are carried out at the respective division.

  1. Directive on the Organisation of Access to Information and Communication Technologies at UCM
  2. Directive on the Use of the Academic Information System
  3. Directive on the Receipt and Handling of Complaints about Anti-Social Activities
  4. Directive on the Handling of Inquiries, Comments, Opinions, Requests, Suggestions, and Proposals at UCM
  5. Complaints Handling Directive at the UCM
  6. Directive on Free Access to Information about the University and Payment of the Costs of Disclosure of Information
  7. Accommodation Regulations of the UCM Student House
  8. Library and Lending Regulations
  9. Obtaining Relevant Feedback from Stakeholders
  10. Guidelines for working on the intramural computer network
  11. Directive on the Rules for the Management and Use of UCM Electronic Mail
  12. Directive regulating the process of concluding bilateral contracts at UCM
  13. Action Plan (Long-term Plan, Gender Equality Implementation)
  14. other internal regulations of UCM with institutional-wide scope in the field of other related activities (Guidelines on the use of UCM SharePoint, Urkund, UCM Visual Identity, Remote Access, UCM online systems, editorial activities, records of publishing activities, records of projects, etc.)

VSK UCM structures for quality assurance of higher education at UCM in the field of other related activities are part of the integrated system. The powers, scope, and responsibilities of the different structures, including senior staff, other staff, and other stakeholders at UCM, are defined in the relevant internal regulations (in particular, statutes, rules of procedure, organisational rules and structures, charters of incorporation, directives, and procedures). The VSK UCM is three-level system in both vertical and horizontal planes.

The vertical-level structures of the VSK UCM primarily ensure the execution of policies and other related activities.

  1. The UCM Rectorate is an institution-wide structure. In accordance with the Higher Education Act, the Act on Quality Assurance, the SAAVS Standards for Internal Quality System, the UCM Statute, and the Statute of the Internal Quality Evaluation Board UCM(RVHK), the person responsible for the policies, structures, and processes of quality assurance of higher education at UCM in the field of other related activities is the Rector of UCM. His/her powers, responsibilities, and competencies for quality assurance of higher education at UCM in the field of other related activities are defined in the UCM Statutes, the Statute of the RVHK, the Rules of Procedure of the RVHK, and the Directive of the VSK UCM.

The area of quality at UCM is primarily concentrated in the department of the relevant Vice-Rector and the relevant department within the meaning of Article 36 of the UCM Statute in accordance with the UCM Organisational Regulations. The area of other related activities at UCM is concentrated in the area of the respective Vice-Rectors and the Bursar.

The administrative, self-governing, academic, and advisory bodies of UCM with university-wide competence in the field of quality according to the powers, responsibilities, and competencies defined by internal regulations are:

The competence, powers, competencies, and responsibilities of the Bursar and other UCM employees in the field of quality assurance of higher education at UCM are regulated by the Higher Education Act, the UCM Statute, and other internal regulations.

  1. The division of UCM (faculty/institute) is a lower-level structure. The person responsible for the area of other related activities at the UCM division is the Dean of the Faculty/Institute Director. His/her responsibilities, powers, and competencies are defined in the Statute of the faculty/institute, the Statute of the Quality Board of the UCM division, and other internal regulations.

The area of quality at UCM is primarily concentrated in the department of the relevant Vice-Dean and the relevant department/staff member, and the area of quality is in accordance with Article 36 of the UCM Statute, as defined in the UCM organisational regulations. The area of other related activities at UCM is concentrated in the department of the respective Vice-Dean and Secretary.

The self-governing, academic and advisory bodies of UCM with competence at the level of the UCM division in the field of other related activities according to the powers, responsibilities, and competencies defined by the internal regulations are:

  • Academic Senate of the Faculty,
  • Scientific Board of the Faculty,
  • Dean’s Board/Director’s Board,
  • other advisory bodies and committees of the Dean/Director.

The relevant agenda of the institutes as university-wide divisions of UCM is discussed by the VR UCM, the AS UCM, and other relevant university-wide structures in accordance with internal regulations.

 

  1. The workplace (department) is elementary level. It is represented by the management of the department (head of the department, deputy head of department), clerk/coordinator/designee in the department in accordance with the applicable Departmental Organisational Structure.

The horizontal-level structures of the VSK UCM primarily ensure the creation and evaluation of policies, structures, and processes through which UCM continuously monitors and periodically evaluates other related activities and proposes measures to the vertical-level structures to improve the quality and development of UCM.

  1. The Internal Quality Evaluation Board of the UCM (hereinafter referred to as “RVHK”) is the university-wide structure for quality assurance of education at UCM. The RVHK is an independent advisory body to the Rector. The composition, competencies, responsibilities, and powers of the RVHK are defined in the Statute of the RVHK and the Rules of Procedure of the RVHK. For the assessment of the education agenda, the RVHK establishes temporary working groups in accordance with the Principles for the Establishment of the List of Assessors and Temporary Working Groups at the RVHK at UCM.
  1. The UCM Division Quality Board (hereafter referred to as the “UCM Division RK”) is a structure for quality assurance of higher education at the UCM Division level with the participation of stakeholders. The UCM Division RK is an independent advisory body to the person responsible for the UCM Division (Dean/Director). The composition, responsibilities, competencies, powers, procedures, and rules for the selection of stakeholders in the UCM Division RK are defined in the Statutes of the UCM Division RK.
  2. Study Programme Board (hereafter referred to as the “RSP”) is a structure for quality assurance of higher education at the level of the department with the participation of stakeholders. The RSP is the body for monitoring, designing, adapting, and developing the SP. The composition, responsibilities, competencies, powers, procedures, and rules for the selection of stakeholders in the RSP are defined in the Statutes of the RSP at UCM. Each third-level study programme is monitored and evaluated by the relevant Field of Study Committee for Doctoral Studies (hereinafter referred to as the “OK”). The responsibilities, competencies, powers, procedures, and rules for the selection of stakeholders in the OC are defined in the Directive on UCM Doctoral Studies.

The structures of the vertical-level of the VSK UCM with institution-wide scope, which ensure the quality of higher education at UCM in the field of other related activities are concentrated in the sense of the UCM Organizational Structure in the departments:

  • Department for Science and Research
  • Center of Services for Support  for Science and  Reasearch
  • Center of  Information Resources (Publishing Services, University Library, Data Analysis Department)

  • Project Centre
  • Department of Public relations
  • Centre for Information and Communication Technologies
  • Career Centre

  • Bursar´s office
  • Department of Economic Activities
  • Department of Economic Administration
  • Registry and Filing Department
  • Department of Labour Economics
  • Personel Department
  • Student Hostel

Processes for quality assurance of higher education at UCM in other related activities

  1. Selection of other university staff.
  2. Ensuring the professional development of teachers, scientific, research, and artistic staff.
  3. Supporting the development of professional, language, digital skills, transferable competencies, and personal development for all staff.
  4. Spatial, material, technical, informational, and personnel provision for the implementation of study programmes.
  5. Generating and effectively using financial resources to provide learning and student support.
  6. Care for students, including personal, career, social, cultural, spiritual, sporting, and other aspects of student life.
  7. Collaboration with institutions of practice and with specialised teaching facilities for practical teaching, including external educational institutions.
  8. Promoting internationalisation, especially inter-university cooperation and mobility.
  9. Gathering, processing, analysing, and evaluating information for the strategic, tactical, and operational management of the delivery and development of curricula, creative activities, and other related activities.
  10. Publication of information about SPs and their graduates.
  11. Publication of information on the implementation and functioning of the VSK UCM, the results achieved, and measures taken.
  12. Creation, implementation, monitoring, and revision of the VSK UCM.
  13. Regular external quality assessment.

Information about other related activities at UCM is made available on the UCM website, or the sub-network of the relevant structure. The results of the activities are recorded in the annual activity reports of UCM and the annual activity reports of the relevant structures.

Other related activities at UCM are continuously monitored and evaluated annually, including the proposal of measures for their improvement, which are part of the UCM Annual Activity Report.

Adoption and control of the implementation of measures to improve the quality of other related activities at UCM is the competence and responsibility of the Rector, the Bursar, and the respective Vice-Rectors, as well as the Rector´s Collegium, the AS UCM, the VR UCM, and the RVHK UCM. The processes of monitoring, evaluation, and control of the fulfilment of measures are recorded in the minutes of the meetings of KR UCM, AS UCM, VR UCM, and RVHK UCM.

AR – Academic Year
AS – Academic Senate
CAF – Common Assessment Framework 
DPS – Temporary Working Groups
ESG – European Standards for Higher Education
FF – Faculty of Arts
FMK – Faculty of Mass Media Communication
FPV – Faculty od Natural Sciences
FSV – Faculty of Social Sciences
FZV – Faculty of Health Sciences
IM – Institute of Management
KR – Rector’s Board
OHIK – Field of Habilitation Proceedings and Inauguration Proceedings
RSP – Study Programme Board
RK – Quality Board
RVHK – Internal Quality Evaluation Board
SAAVS – Slovak Accreditation Agency for Higher Education
SR – Board of Trustees
SO – Field of Study
SP – Study Programme
UCM – University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Trnava
VHS – Internal Evaluation System
VP – Internal Regulation
VR – Scientific Board
VSK – Internal Quality System
VSK VHS – Internal Evaluation Report of the Internal Quality System
VUPCH – Scientific-Artistic-Pedagogical Characteristics