The degree programmes at Natural Sciences are founded in disciplinary excellence, through which students acquire knowledge and skills to match the needs of society. To ensure that the degree programmes remain socially relevant at all times, an employer panel panel has been set up at each department and centre offering Master’s degree programmes. The primary task of the employer panels is to advise on and discuss degree programme development with the education committees.
The collaboration with the employer panels is meant to ensure that the degree programmes are socially relevant and that their qualification profiles reflect the current and future needs of the labour market.
The departments are obliged to prepare minutes of their meetings with the employer panels. The minutes are distributed to the members of the employer panel and the head of department. Furthermore, the minutes are distributed to the director of studies and the board of studies, whose work must take account of the employer panels’ recommendations. Finally, the minutes must be distributed to the vice-dean for education, who ensures that the employer panels’ recommendations are included in the faculty’s strategic work.
The employer panels are also called upon to act as advisory partners in connection with the accreditation and evaluation of degree programmes, and in connection with the establishment of new degree programmes within or associated with the subject areas covered by the individual panels. In connection with the degree programme evaluations carried out every five years, the chair of the employer panel must comment in writing on the self-assessment report.
For a detailed description of the purpose and function of the employer panels, please refer to the terms of reference for the employer panels.
The Natural Sciences’ Advisory Board is tasked with advising the Dean’s Office on strategy, visions and academic matters relating to research, collaborations, education and talent development. The Advisory Board considers the faculty’s portfolio and development of degree programmes and thus contributes important insights, for example on the needs of potential employers as well as the content and subject areas covered by the degree programmes.
The Advisory Board is composed of external members from Denmark and abroad representing key employers of the faculty’s graduates and academic research and educational institutions.
The Advisory Board meets once a year, and the Dean’s Office is responsible for following up on the board’s recommendations.
