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2.12. Staff Development Activities
Academics career and personal development are managed by the Department, which is the home base of the academics. Academic development for
academic staff is conducted within the division, i.e. Plant Ecophysiology, Plant Production, Plant Biotechnology, Seed Science and Technology and Genetics and
Plant Breeding. Academic development, including advanced study for a higher degree education doctorate degree, is part of career promotion and is aligned with
the professional interests of each academic and the targeted competence of the staff division. The Head of Division made a gap analysis between current condition and
requirements for fullfilling the the university standard or future need to accomplish the organization vision and mission. According to this gap analysis, the Head of Division
proposed a training or program improvement. This procedure is also required by the ISO 9001:2008 quality management. After the training or program development,
Head of division will evaluate the effectiveness of those programs and their impact on the competence and performance of the academic staffs.
The Department and the University continously inform the academics on the available external research grants and encouraged the academics to submit a
proposal to obtain the grant. Apart from higher degree studies, academic development is conducted through trainings, workshops, scientific staff exchanges,
internship in an overseas institutes or University, and post-doctoral program overseas. To date some academics have participated in trainings in Pakistan, The
Netherland, Thailand, Japan, China, United States of America and Australia through the international collaborations of the Department Appendix 2.12.1.
Supporting staff have 27 personnels, 85 of them do the administrations, 15 as technicians both indoor labs and in the experimental stations. Current ratio
of administration personnels to students is 1:35.4 to 50, meaning each person will have to provide service to 36 - 50 students. The ratio of technician to students is
around 1:40 to 1: 60, which reflects the relatively sufficient number of technicians compared to the number of students to be served. The Department is aware of this
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condition and is planning to provide trainings, particularly to the support staffs with high school education level, which comprise 50 of the existing personnels.
The Dept of AGH has a system to educate and to train the support staffs. Regular meetings are conducted within the Department to discuss the best way to
educate and to improve the skills of the support staffs. A development of the support staffs is done according to the work assigned. The fund for the training comes from
the University and other programs on that the Department involved. Some training on softskill development and techniques have been participated by the support staffs of
AGH, including on education administration, experimental station management, laboratory skills, the use of office programs, organic farming and agro-tourism
Appendix 2.12.2. Opportunities are opened for existing staffpersonnel to pursue career development and training within or outside the University.
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