Programme board meeting minutes



Faculty: ECON: Faculty of Economics and Administration

Name of the degree programme[1]:   N-FINA Finance (in English)

Type: Master's degree programme

The Chair of the Programme Board:  Assoc. Prof. Ing. Eva Vávrová, Ph.D.

Number of degree programmes in the Programme Board: 1


Date of the meeting: 3. 10. 2024


Presence

Name

Position

Doc. Ing. Eva Vávrová, Ph.D.

The Chair of the Programme Board – the degree programme guarantor

Oleg Deev, Ph.D.

Degree programme academic staff

Ing. Dagmar Vágnerová Linnertová, Ph.D.

Degree programme academic staff

Doc. Ing. Tomáš Plíhal, Ph.D.

Degree programme academic staff

Ing. Petr Valouch, Ph.D.

Degree programme academic staff

Ing. Jan Svoboda

Employer/graduate representative

* Add another line if needed



1.   Evaluate the past year of the degree programme implementation (e.g. admissions, academic
failure, final state examinations, internationalization). If the degree programme includes a
distance or combined study plan, also focus on evaluating these plans. Please specifically address
the results of the student quality assessment (subject survey and other instruments), what measures
have been taken, and with what results.

The past year of the N-FINA degree programme implementation led to better results both in the case
of the admissions process and also in the case of study success. As for the results of the student
quality assessment (subject survey and other instruments), the results appear to be consistently
positive, and in addition, even more emphasis is placed on the comprehensive response of teachers
and course guarantors to the stimuli arising from the subject survey.


2.   Describe the significant and non-significant changes in the degree programme during the last
evaluation period (typically since the previous Programme Board meeting).

Chairwoman of the Programme Board doc. Vávrová informed the Board members about the non-significant
changes made in the N-FINA degree programme (in English). In case of non-significant changes made
in the N-FINA degree programme before the start of fall semester 2024, these are changes related to
the change of course guarantors. The changes were noted at the Programme Board meeting. The
following became the new guarantors of courses: doc. Plíhal, doc. Výrost, doc. Čapek; Araneda
Barahona, Ph.D.; A. Rigamonti, Ph.D. - see attachments to the Minutes.


3.   Describe the extent to which the objectives have been achieved, evaluate the development plan
you have drawn up during the last evaluation and formulate the goals for the next period.

The development plan of the N-FINA study programme focused on changes in the requirements for
successful completion of studies and the process of the state final exam (including requirements
for final theses with regard to AI), innovation of the content of individual courses in connection
with legislation changes and requirements of the labour market.

Objectives of the N-FINA degree programme development in the last evaluation:

Qualification growth of academic staff – two ECON MUNI Dept. of Finance members are gaining higher
qualification (Assoc. Prof. T. Plíhal, Prof. Š. Lyócsa).

Increasing the number of students – in cooperation with the ECON MUNI International Office the
number of students increased.

Better promotion of the N-FINA study program - improved promotion in cooperation with ECON MUNI
International Office.


4.   If lifelong learning programmes (LLL) are associated with the degree programme, evaluate the
past year of implementation and describe changes and plans for further development of the LLL
programme based on participant feedback.

Lifelong learning programmes (LLL) are not associated with the N-FINA degree programme.


5.   Comments and observations beyond the above topics.

Student representative did not participate in the N-FINA Programme Board Meeting. Student
representative Feridun Batu Meftun has been appointed as a member of the N-FINA Programme Board
with effect from Sept 5th, 2024. Student representation in FIN Programme Board works perfectly,
brings valuable information from students’ point of view, and it would be desirable to use the
instrument of student representative also in the N-FINA degree programme meeting, as has been the
case so far. In the near future, it will probably be necessary to address the decreasing number of
teachers and theses supervisors in the N-FINA study programme.


Attachments:

1) N-FINA overview of non-significant changes in the degree programme 2023/24 and 2024/2025.



Compiled by: Assoc. Prof. Ing. Eva Vávrová, Ph.D.

Date: 8.10.2024
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[1] In the case of a joint programme board, please list all degree programmes involved.