UNS — Universitas Sebelas Maret (UNS) Surakarta held training and first-class for New Students of Master and Doctoral Program Period II Academic Year of 2020/2021 on Tuesday (16/3/2021). The training for more than 550 students was held through Zoom Cloud Meetings and live stream in UNS Official YouTube channel.
Providing the first lecture, Prof. Jamal Wiwoho, as UNS Rector, said that a master’s and a doctoral degree is an initial step to get into higher qualification. Therefore, Prof. Jamal encouraged postgraduate students to adapt and take a strategic role as a motor of change. “We hope that the UNS Postgraduate program can shape successful people who will continue to study further. To walk, to run, to jump, to swim, and even fly,” Prof. Jamal stated.
Prof. Jamal added that many tracks are available to achieve a qualified level through formal education, experience, independent study, the industry, the professional world, and professional certification. Through these tracks, UNS education, especially the postgraduate school, is expected to provide quality education and independence. Postgraduate program students are students who can find their own needs. The patterns should bring the university and the working world closer. This condition is the target of higher education in the next five years to create leading human resources as future leaders. UNS is ready to participate in this target.
“Preparing human resources is a vital facility and infrastructure to welcome Industrial 4.0 and Society 5.0. With high-quality human resources, we can easily adapt (to the development),” Prof. Jamal said.
As an effort to accelerate quality improvement in postgraduate education management and administration, UNS issued Rector Decree Number 23 of 2020 as an amendment for Rector Decree Number 17 of 2018. The new decree regulates learning outcomes and simplifies the thesis and dissertation completion process in UNS. After completing two semesters of theoretical courses, thesis completion consists of 10-12 credits for seminar and proposal defend, research progress seminar and publication materials, and thesis defense.
For the dissertation, the seven steps progress is simplified into five steps. Seminar and proposal defend, result seminar and dissertation progress, feasibility examination of dissertation and publication material, close examination, and open examination can be eliminated if the candidate has certain publication criteria. “This policy is created to speed up the process but does not reduce the quality of our graduates. The most important thing is to understand the target from the start. If (we) know our target from the beginning, it will ease you in progressing,” Prof. Jamal stated. Humas UNS
Reporter: Kaffa Hidayati
Editor: Dwi Hastuti
