Prospective Students | All Students |
Alumni | StaffTo offer any new programs of study the proposal must be submitted through the School Board to Academic Senate by 1 June of the academic year preceding the year in which the program is to be offered. The proposal must include the following.
1 Submitting Division
2 Program Title
3 Program Type and Award
3.1 Undergraduate or Postgraduate program
3.2 Degree, Diploma, or Certificate awarded
3.3 Credit and/or Professional Qualification awarded
4 Divisions Offering Program
4.1 School or Centre Administering Program
4.1.1 Administrating academic staff
4.1.2 Support letters from Executive Dean or Centre Director
4.1.3 Support letter from Dean of Research and Postgraduate Studies (if appropriate)
4.2 Contributing Schools and Centres
4.2.1 Support letters from Executive Deans and Centre Directors
4.3 Other Contributing Institutions
4.3.1 Support letters from Institutional Heads
5 Rationale for Program
5.1 Contribution to PNG National Needs
5.1.1 Career opportunities for graduates
5.1.2 Professional recognition of program
5.2 Relationship of Program to University Strategic Plan
5.3 Relationship of Program to School Strategic Plan
5.4 Similar programs at other institutions
5.4.1 Institutions in Papua New Guinea
5.4.2 Institutions in neighbouring countries and wider world, as appropriate
6 Intended Students and Projected Enrolments
6.1 Targeted Consumer Groups
6.1.1 General Description
6.1.2 Estimated Size of National Group
6.1.3 Estimated Size International Group
6.2 Admissions Requirements
6.2.1 General description
6.2.2 Specific selection criteria
6.3 National Enrolments for the First Five Years
6.4 International Student Enrolments
7 Required Resources
7.1 Staff
7.2 Teaching and Laboratory Facilities
7.3 Information Technology and Library Resources
7.4 Specialty Resources and Equipment
8 Proposed Fees and Cost Recovery
(if offered on a fee paying basis)
8.1 Program costs
8.2 Student fees
8.3 Cost recovery model
8.3.1 Staff salaries
8.3.2 General overhead
8.3.3 Life costs for repair and replacement of specialty resources
9 Description of Program Development Process
9.1 Review of Current Offerings and Decision to Develop a New Program
9.2 Contributions from Industry and other Stakeholding Organisations
10 Program Description
10.1 General Program Description
10.2 Assumed Student Knowledge Base
10.3 Graduate Profile
10.4 Program Objectives
10.4.1 Description
10.4.2 Matrix illustrating that objectives meet the profile.
(List the profile needs across the top by number, list the objectives down the side and check all that apply.)
10.5 Teaching Program Structure and Delivery
10.5.1 Schedule of Courses
10.5.2 Options for Flexible Delivery
(Attach letter of support from Director of IDCE)
10.6 Research Program Structure and Delivery (if appropriate)
10.6.1 Academic Staff Supervising Research
(Attach letter of support from Dean of Research and Postgraduate Studies)
10.7 Time to Completion
10.8 Program and Course Objective
10.8.1 Matrix illustrating that courses meet objectives.
(List objectives across the top by number, list the course titles down the side and check all that apply.)
11 Descriptions of Courses (including course outlines)
(Title, Description, and Credits of each course)
11.1 Existing Courses
11.2 New Courses
12 Quality Assurance Strategy
12.1 Internal Review Mechanisms
12.1.1 Support letter from the Director of the Teaching and Learning Centre
12.2 External Review Mechanisms
12.3 Industry/Professional Body Evaluation
13 Provisions for Students with Special Needs
13.1 International Students
13.2 Disabled Students
14 Advertising and Promotion
