Lunch Talk #27: Indonesian Higher Education under the Administrative Regime

You are invited to join the Lunch Talk #27 at the Faculty of Education, UIII

Rakhmat Hidayat, Ph.D. (Lecturer at State University of Jakarta) will share about: “Indonesian Higher Education under the Administrative Regime”.

This talk aims to explain the problems and complexities of bureaucratic administration in Indonesian higher education. The dominance of bureaucratic administration in the university governance system put Indonesian academics under the control of the administrative regime. The controversy over the administrative burden relates to the management of academic careers in Indonesia. In addition to having to fulfil a layered role in accordance with the Tri Dharma, academics in Indonesia have to face pressure and administrative burdens such as mandates letter (surat tugas), documentation, and reports. Even long before the latest rules appeared above, lecturers were obliged to upload the documents to many different information systems. However, more than just an administrative burden issue, it also comes from the tradition of government intervention in Indonesian higher education governance. The complexity of the bureaucracy associated with the reloading of faculty performance data is an iceberg phenomenon (fenomena gunung es) of higher education governance problems in Indonesia that is still dominated by government and bureaucratic practices.
On the other hand, in the context of knowledge production, the complexity of bureaucracy and administration in higher education has resulted in procedural and energy-consuming. Administrative processes are often considered more essential than the core of the question and the purpose of knowledge itself. Administrative bureaucracy controls science and academic life. Everything has to be lived with a long and exhausting administration. Science is underneath it. Even the lecturers who were supposed to be free-thinking scientists, must and are accustomed to undergoing complicated non-scientific procedures. Bureaucracy and administration have always held control of research, institutional development, and international networks.

Day/Date: Monday/March 18, 2024
Time: 13.00-14.30 WIB
Place: Theater, Faculty A Building

Online participation:
https://bit.ly/LunchTalkEdu27

E-Certificate is provided

Thank you!

Recording on Youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ff9BAp8MONk&list=PLX82ye7O55cfL5g1bdzTVODu3MbhKUd3e&index=26

by Muhammad Sufyan

End of Semester Gathering (Odd Semester Academic Year 2023/2024)

Tuesday, January 23, 2024, the UIII Faculty of Education held an End of Semester Gathering in the Thater Faculty A, which aimed to evaluate the learning process and results that had been carried out during one semester. Lecturers, staff, and students of the Faculty of Education attended this evaluation. Prof. Nina Nurmila, Ph.D. as the Dean of the Faculty of Education, UIII opened the activity.

In the opening, She conveyed some advice, especially for M.A. students. in Education when studying Thesis Proposal: 1) Control yourself, not control your supervisor, which means you must manage your time. Contact your supervisor way ahead before your defense time. Give your supervisors at least a week after sending your thesis draft for them to read and give feedback; 2) Communicate via email and within one email only (one thread). Using email makes it easier to track previous communication and documents. 3) Students must consult with their supervisors about chapters 1-3 (especially chapter 3) and their research instrument. Students can only have their instrument after they complete chapters 1 to 3. Usually, it takes at least three times for supervision to have approval of the research instrument. 4) Be humble by not pressuring your supervisor to approve your thesis/instruments.

The activity continued with presenting the results of the quantitative evaluation analysis delivered by Bambang Sumintono Ph.D., the Head of Ph.D. in Education Program. The evaluation results show that students consider the material presented in class easy to understand and that the lecturers behave well towards the students. The analysis results also show that there is a need for improvement in student preparation before the start of learning or discussion sessions in class.

The activity continued with delivering evaluations directly by the students led by Tati D. Wardi, Ph.D., the Head of M.A. in Education Program. She responded to one of the students who complained that the assignment deadlines from each lecturer were sometimes too short. He suggested that students could ask for an extension of assignment submission time or learn from the initial batch how they manage their time to complete assignments on time.

by Muhammad Sufyan

Lunch Talk #25: Promoting Spatial Reasoning of Early Childhood Educators to Support Numeracy Learning

Dear All,

You are invited to join the Lunch Talk #25 at the Faculty of Education, UIII

Dr. Destina Wahyu Winarti (Lecturer at Indonesian International Islamic University) and Assoc. Prof. Wanty Widjaja (Lecturer at Deakin University) will share about: "Promoting Spatial Reasoning of Early Childhood Educators to Support Numeracy Learning".

A holistic and integrative early childhood education has become one of the policy focuses of the Indonesian Early Childhood Education Directorate General. The Indonesian government also emphasizes the need to strengthen the development of numeracy skills from early childhood. Informed by this policy initiative and research literature that highlights spatial reasoning as one of the predictors for numeracy success in later years, this study aims to integrate spatial reasoning within play-based activities to support numeracy learning in early childhood. Building early childhood educators’ capacity is considered as the first critical step. This study aims to achieve this by engaging early childhood educators in co-designing spatially rich play-based classroom learning activities, implementing them in their work place and reflecting on their rich experiences.

Day/Date: Tuesday/January 23, 2024
Time: 10.30-12.00 WIB
Place: Theater, Faculty A Building

Online participation:
https://bit.ly/LunchTalkEdu25

E-Certificate is provided

Thank you!

Recording on Youtube

by Muhammad Sufyan

Thesis Proposal Seminar of M.A. in Education Program 2024

On Wednesday, January 10, 2024, the Faculty of Education, UIII held a Thesis Proposal Seminar that was attended by 17 students of M.A. in Education. The activity began with an opening by Tati D. Wardi, Ph.D. as Chairman of the M.A. in Education Program and continued with remarks from Prof. Nina Nurmila, Ph.D. as the Dean of the Faculty of Education. Some M.A. students and Ph.D. in Education Programs also attended the event.

After the opening ceremony, proposal seminar participants were divided into 3 rooms, are Lecture Hall, Classroom 14, and Classroom 15. Each room was filled with 3 examiners. Bambang Sumintono, Ph.D., Dr. Lukman Nul Hakim, and Ummi Kulthum, Ph.D. examined in the Lecture Hall room. Tati D. Wardi, Ph.D., Dr. Destina Wahyu Winarti, and Saida Ulfa, Ph.D. examined in Classroom 14. Meanwhile, Prof. Nina Nurmila, Ph.D., Charyna Ayu Rizkyanti, Ph.D., and R. Alpha Amirrachman, Ph.D. examined in Classroom 15.

The thesis proposal seminar activity started with the presentation of the research proposal by each student, then each examiner provided comments and recommendations as well as an assessment of the research ideas that have been presented. All examiners hope that all students can complete their research on time. The 17 students who took part in the thesis proposal seminar activities were:

1. Eka Hermansyah
2. Ghufronakallah
3. Mayola Andika
4. Zulaikha Delju
5. Mir Hussain
6. Iin Afriyanti Umar
7. Fayyaz Mumtaz
8. Rahayu Azkiya
9. Tazkia Aulia Rahmah
10. Mahurni
11. Catur NIasari
12. Andi Ibrahim Ali
13. Zaima Bunga Wijayanti
14. Salsabila Abdul Ghafur
15. Irkham Zamzuri
16. Maroof Ahmed
17. Maria Ayaz

by Muhammad Sufyan