Roles and responsibilities, Faculty of Technology

The programme coordinator has the overall responsibility for the quality assurance and development of the education, which primarily includes the following tasks:

• Maintaining continuous and systematic contacts with students, teachers, heads of departments, study counselors, and education administrators.
• Being responsible for the review, coordination, and progression of course syllabi within the programme.
• Coordinating programme goals, course goals, and examinations.
• Organizing the programme's structure and implementing the education and its pedagogy to ensure the progression of knowledge and skills within the programme, and striving for the highest possible quality.
• Consulting with programme directors of related programmes.
• Assisting the relevant head(s) of department in planning course coordinators and examiners for courses within the programme.
• Participating in the implementation and compilation of programme evaluations.
• Ensuring that course evaluations are compiled for the programme.
• Communicating the need for any changes to the relevant teachers and heads of departments.
• Annually reviewing the education plan.
• Deciding on the credit transfer of exchange studies according to Local Rules for Credit Transfer (ref: 2015/103-1.1).
• Deciding on study breaks according to the dean's decision (ref: 2014/79-2.2.4).
• Deciding on administrative models for the admission of students to programme courses if deemed appropriate.
• Acting as the chair and convener of the programme council.
• Representing the education programme in bodies within the faculty and the university.
• Assisting study counselors with programme-specific study information.
• Assisting study counselors in establishing individual study plans.
• Contributing to the development of informational materials for catalogs and other marketing/information.
• Being responsible for the appropriate programme room in the current learning platform.
• Informing Grundutbildningsnämnden (GUN) about the marketing and recruitment efforts for which assistance from the communications department is desired.

The course coordinator has the following primary tasks:

• Being responsible for the preparation of the course syllabus.
• Ensuring that the course is conducted in a qualitative manner and meets the syllabus requirements.
• Proposing course planning within the given budget framework to the head of department and reporting the outcome.
• Organizing the teaching, including scheduling, room booking, mandatory components, and examinations.
• Ensuring that course results are reported in Ladok.
• After the course is completed, being responsible for conducting the students' course evaluation and compiling the results.
• Representing the course in the programme council.
• Maintaining necessary documentation that can be used by a substitute or successor.

The examiner should be well-versed in the local regulations for examinations and has the following primary tasks:

• Assigning final grades and documenting the grading decision (authority regulated in HF6:18).
• Being responsible for the content and quality of the examination.
• Reporting any suspicion of cheating to the rector.
• Quality reviewing the course syllabus.