Competencies of the Higher Studies and Research Sector
- Planning, coordinating, organizing and following-up issues.
- Studying and preparing the general policy for postgraduate studies and research at the university, and coordinating among them at university faculties.
- Drawing the policy to achieve cooperation and coordination among departments in the university’s faculties and institutes with regard to postgraduate studies and research.
- Preparing general plans for the university’s missions and study leaves and for dispatching foreign scholarships.
- Preparing a program to complete the number of teaching staff whether inside the universities or outside them to form integrates teams of researchers in various disciplines.
- Devising a policy for dispatching universities’ teaching staff in scientific missions.
- Planning for holding conferences, scientific symposia and seminars at the university and for participating in other ones whether inside or outside the country.
- Offering advice and recommendations on the executive regulations of post-graduate studies and research affairs.
- Coordinating approval of post-graduate students at the university.
- Setting up a scientific research mechanism at the university.
- Setting up a system for sabbatical leaves for post-graduate studies and research at the university.
- Discussing faculties’ reports, scientific conferences’ recommendations, scientific communities’ reports and the annual report of vice president for post-graduate studies and research and assessing and revising systems.
- Following up the implementation of post- graduate studies and research plan at the university.
- Analyzing all data and statistics concerning teaching staff, teaching assistance, demonstrators, post- graduate studies and research in addition to rare disciplines at the university.
- Preparing the project of scientific research budget at the university and how to deal with its terms.
- Executive issues:
- Managing the scientific research fund at the university.
- Receiving the scientific issues from various technical and scientific agencies and distributing them to specialized faculties of the university.
- Exemption of post-graduate students from certain courses .
- Determining the scheduling of post- graduate students’ examination across all the faculties.
- Deciding on scientific research rewards for post-studies.
- Deciding on overseas missions and the foreign grants and reporting the academic leaves.
- Dispatching teaching staff in scientific missions and attending scientific symposia and conferences.
- Permitting scientific full-time leaves for professors.
- Gathering scientific researches, encouraging and distributing them among the university teaching staff.
- Distributing the university scientific research budget in accordance with the suggested programs.
- Separate issues:
- Issues submitted by the university council.
- Other issues in accordance with the law.
