Extracurricular Activities Can Be Special Assessments

To improve the competitiveness of the graduates that are able to compete with graduates from other colleges, starting this year the Faculty of public health (FKM) Diponegoro University issued a number of student loan policy in the form of co-curricular activities student assessment.

According to Dean Tinuk Istiarti, FKM Undip in press remarks Monday (4/3/2013) disclose these policies to better deliver ability of soft skill that students at their college more actively following extra-curricular activities so as to increase their knowledge and experience.

Through this program, students are required to collect a minimum of 5 credits per semester number. In addition, a student is also required to achieve a minimum of 60 credit number amount number of credit before a final exam scholarship. If, the number of credits 60 have not met, student must follow the final exam scholarship.

The composition of credit numbers that must be met by the student activities include, a field of reasoning (20 percent), the field ask for talent (20 percent), social development (20 percent), and special areas of activity (25 per cent) obtained from the activities at the level of the faculty, the University and outside the University.

For the elements of reasoning, including writing scientific works, scientific works, achievements at the scientific works, scientific seminars, poster sessions, scientific and technology paper draft, works of art and the performing arts, following the training fields per activity or internship, and a host of other activities.

With regard to the number of credit interest and aptitude, students, among others, should be held at the Office of student affairs institutions, off-campus organizations both national and international level, regional, as well as have the achievements in the field of sports or the arts, and others.

Similarly, elements of social credit number, if the students follow the community social events, community and participate in providing training in accordance with the science community, per.

To support the implementation of the programme, the field of Student Affairs has launched a FKM Undip software online to calculate credit points extracurricular activities students and also formed a team of verifikator.

The final results of the assessment, students will obtain a transcript of ektrskurikuler activities to be submitted at the time of graduation in conjunction with the transcript value and a diploma.

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One Billion For The Research Activities Of The Faculty

Muhammadiyah University of North Sumatra (UMSU) spends Rp1 billion for internal research activities, a lecturer at the private University.

"Funds available for internal research activities Professor listed in the budget and the income of University Expenditures USD 1 billion," said the Chairman of the Centre for research and public service (P3M) UMSU, Prof DR Alesyanti, MPd, MH told reporters Sunday (17/2/2013).

He explained, the research budget is contested for lecturers who are interested doing research by submitting proposals to the P3M. For the first stage there was as much as recorded by 2013 60 incoming research proposals follow selection.

Of that number as many as 10 research proposals got away with a total budget of Rp absorbed 94 million. While the research proposal failed lecturers are still given the chance to make improvements.

"When you look at the number of research proposals that go, it means still quite a lot of budgets provided yet absorbed, so the opportunity to get the cost of research is wide open," he said.

Further he says, selection of proposals-funded research conducted its own UMSU twice each year. The selection of the first proposal in December 2012 and the second stage is planned April 2013.

"For the selection of proposals, with two UMSU P3M reviewers from outside the Prof Badaruddin from USU and Prof. Dian Armanto Unimed Professor who is also the Coordinator of North Sumatra Region I-Kopertis Aceh," he said.

The existence of the reviewer from outside the environment of UMSU was intended to the selection of research proposals is completely fair and scientific standards in accordance with the assessment of higher education.

The magnitude of the research budget to the UMSU's own professors expected to motivate research activities in the University environment. In addition of course to add revenue outside of the teaching faculty.

Still in order to improve research at the campus environment, Prof. Alesyanti, P3M obviously staged and Deepening Socialization of higher education Research VIII Edition Format as well as the construction of the Internal Research UMSU.

"The activities carried out during the two-day 13-February 14, with speaker Prof. Dian Armanto, Coordinator of North Sumatra Region I-Kopertis Aceh," he said.

In the activities of Prof. Dian Armanto invites teachers to enrich themselves through the way Kosher by doing research. "Let's get filthy rich with the research," he said.

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