The Institute of Social Technologies
Materials for the Higher Education Establishment
Accreditation
Riga, 2000
Contents
STI DEVELOPMENT CONCEPT
Events Held by Social Technologies Institution of Higher Education (STI) following the Visit of Commission of Experts in the Law Science Curriculum on 9-10 November 1999
Main Aims. Strategy. Structure / 4
I / General provisions / 5
II / Goals and tasks of the Higher School / 5
III / Higher School structure / 8
IV / Higher School representatives, governing and decision-making institutions / 9
V / Staff / 11
VI / The Higher School students / 12
VII / General studies regulation / 13
VIII / Property, finances and economic activity / 13
Information of Methodical and Material Assurance of the Syllabus / 16
Supplement / 18
Rules and Regulations / 19
STI Staff internal Rules and Regulations / 21
STI admission rules / 27
STI Curriculum Commission Regulations / 29
Lecturer election Commission Regulations / 31
Evening and correspondence department regulations / 32
Practical regulations / 33
Examination and test regulations / 35
Regulations for the organization of the process of studies / 37
Regulations for order maintenance in the Higher School premises / 38
Examining board regulations / 39
Regulations for the students` self-government of the Institute of Social Tehnology / 42
Regulations for the credit point test system basic principles / 44
Regulations for writing and defending graduation paper / 45
Regulations for the EC-IST Chairs / 49
Regulations for the Auditioning Committee of the EC-IST / 51
Regulations for the EC-IST Arbitration court / 52
Regulations for the EC-IST Senate / 56
Methodological instructions for the independent students` activities organization / 58
STI Law Studies Specialization Syllabus of Students Practice / 63
Regulations of the educational hardware laboratory / 71
Regulations of evaluations of the Students` knowledge / 72
Regulations of the Student’s leave of absence granting procedure / 74
Regulations of the students transfer and reinstatement in the Institute of Social Tehnology / 75
Regulations of the course papers / 77
Regulations of the research work / 82
Study programmes / 85
CURRICULUM VITAE / 108
The Institute of Social Technologies
Main Aims. Strategy. Structure
Riga, 2000
I. GENERAL PROVISIONS
1. The Institute of Social Technology is a Republic of Latvia high school founded as a non-profitable organization (Republic of Latvia Companies Register Certificate No. 000328597 issued on March 07, 1996)
2. The Institute of Social Technology is at the address: 10 Balta St., LV-1055 Riga, Latvia. The Institute of Social Technology has its abbreviated name: STI (hereinafter referred to as the "STI").
STI names in the other languages:
Sociālo Tehnoloģiju Augstskola (Latvian);
Высшая школа социальных технологий (Russian);
Institut für Sozialtechnologien (German).
3. STI operates being governed by the Republic of Latvia Satversme (Constitution), Republic of Latvia educational law, high school law, the Law "On Scientific Activity", STI By-laws, other regulatory acts.
4. In compliance with the high school law, the STI By-laws were approved by The Institute of Social Technology meeting on February 24, 1996.
5. STI is an autonomous institution with the self-governmental powers. The Institute self-government is based on the rights of all the permanent staff-members to participate in the administration of the academic, administrative or economic affairs.
6. STI is a legal entity with its own settlement account, seal.
II. Goals and Tasks of the High School
Goals:
* To train qualified lawyers-practitioners, economists, psychologists who are capable to act professionally and proceed with their education in the specialty selected, in compliance with the needs of the Republic of Latvia;
* To train lawyers-practitioners who shall provide legal services to the commercial structures, legal advises to the population in the field of law, economic, business activity and labor issues in the small and medium business;
* To have the economists oriented towards commercial activity, upon training small and medium business organizers who shall be able to manage economic departments and the units in their subordination, to make independent decisions on the operating procedures improvement and management organization;
* To train psychologists-advisors, specialists of the "human relations" who shall be engaged in the spheres of management, business, staff selection in the personnel departments, as well as in the population employment centers and advertising; teachers-psychologists who shall help the students to resolve their problems at school and at home, provide professional advises to the students and their parents;
* To work out and master such educational programs as to allow for the unification of both professional and humanitarian knowledge, developing oneself as cultured specialists;
* To make the students oriented towards operation on the inner market, in compliance with the needs of the Republic of Latvia, contribution to the non-Latvian integration into the economic, political and social systems of the Republic of Latvia, adoption of the Latvian cultural traditions;
* To contribute to the potential formation of an educated, intellectual, cultured and ethical society.
Tasks:
* To provide for the unity of the educational, research and practical activity, to provide the educational process with the relevant methodological materials, to establish a modern material and technical base;
* To train the specialists who shall be able, under the variable circumstances of the social practice, to reevaluate the experience already gained and acquire a new knowledge upon utilization of the modern informative and educational technologies;
* Having regard to the general progress of educational programs, to place emphasis on the ability to establish and organize relationships, within a group, with the clients, partners and other elements of the social sphere, to gain the skills of communication with the colleagues, the ability to organize the work of executors, to make governing decisions under conflicting circumstances;
* To create a multi-level system of continuous study and practical work for the students, commencing the practical work with the learning of the public institution activities and ending it with that of organizations and firms;
* To provide for a guarantee for the educational programs continuous realization, upon implementation of the long-term conformity plan in its relation to the educational, scientific, personnel, administrative, material and technical and financial tasks;
* To form the team of the Institute - a stable academic staff, qualitative administrative and service staff, and students.
Ways for Realization of the Goals:
* To arrange for the educational programs strong compliance with the Republic of Latvia legislation, regulatory documents of the Republic of Latvia Ministry of Sciences and Education;
* To form a stable permanent staff of teachers by way of a contest, to invite well-known Latvian and foreign specialists-practitioners to read a series of educational courses;
* To develop the realization of the professionally and practically oriented educational programs, use of business games, training, methods of active studies, individual and group consultations, individualization of the educational process;
* To establish a multi-level system of the students' continuous studies and practical work;
* To improve the material and technical base of the programs, including lecture halls, special-purpose rooms and laboratories, computer network (with a free access for the interested students), qualitative library with the selection of the books in Latvian and foreign languages, local and foreign press, conforming to the requirements;
* To develop versatile contacts with the Latvian and foreign high schools, to pay special attention to the learning of foreign languages after the modern methods;
* To establish and realize a permanently functioning system of strategic planning and operational activities of the Institute;
* To print and re-print scientific, educational and methodological literature in the sufficient volume, to provide the academic staff with the opportunity to improve their qualification constantly;
* To support the functioning of the Institute with the qualified service staff;
* To provide the teaching staff and students with the academic freedom, arrangements for the normal conditions of feeding, rest and life, opportunities for relaxation and recreation.
III. High School STRUCTURE
1. The High School shall operate in compliance with the Republic of Latvia legislation, its By-laws and high school regulations.
2. STI is a higher professional educational institution in which the persons may study who have acquired the general secondary education.
3. The representative, governing and chief decision-making institutions of the High School are: the constituent assembly, Senate, Rector, Auditing Committee, Arbitration.
4. The High School structure shall comprise 5 Chairs (of Law, Economics, Psychology, Foreigns, the Humanities) and a hardware laboratory which shall be united under the "Division of the Social Sciences".
5. The Chairs shall carry out educational, methodological and scientific research activities in conformity to their lines respectively.
6. The laboratory shall be a basic unit of research activities and establish and realize research programs and perform research in one of the scientific sectors. The Laboratory regulations shall be approved by the Senate.
7. The educational programs shall provide for 4-year or 4.5-year studies.
8. The Program Directors shall be responsible for the programs contents and quality.
9. All the Programs and amendments thereto shall be approved by the Educational Program Committee functioning under the Senate.
10. All the High School structures shall function in compliance with the High School law, By-laws and regulations approved by the Senate.
11. The High School management structure is shown below.
IV. High School REPRESENTATIVE, GOVERNING AND DECISION-MAKING INSTITUTIONS
1. The STI representative, governing and decision-making institutions are:
- the constituent assembly,
- the Senate,
- the Rector and Pro-rectors,
- the Auditing Committee,
- the Arbitration.
2. The STI constituent assembly shall be the STI supreme permanent staff representative and governing institution. All the STI staff-members who have permanent positions in the STI, as well as the academic staff-members who work in the STI in combining of positions, completing a full teaching work, shall take part in the constituent assembly with the rights to vote.
The Rector, Pro-rector and Board representatives shall take part in the constituent assembly with the deliberative voting rights.
3. The STI constituent assembly shall:
- accept and amend the High School By-laws;
- elect and dismiss the Rector;
- hear to the Rector's reports;
- elect the Senate;
- elect the Auditing Committee;
- elect the Arbitration.
4. The STI constituent assembly activity shall be stipulated by the high school law and By-laws.
5. The STI Senate shall be the High School staff collective management and decision-making institution to approve the order and provisions regulating all the spheres of activity of the High School, including the academic, governing and economic activities.
6. The STI Senate shall:
1. appoint:
- the Chairman of the Senate (a professor or assistant professor);
- the Secretary of the Senate;
- professors;
- assistant professors;
- lecturers;
2. approve:
- the educational programs and their managers;
- the regulations for the structural units;
- the heads of the functional and service structural units;
- the articles of organization and regulations for the Council and societies in the subordination of the latter;
- the students self-government regulations;
- the procedure of the students enrollment and immatriculation;
3. prepare propositions for the STI founders on:
- the STI budget and utilization of its funds;
- establishment of the STI structural units;
- foundation of the societies and enterprises subordinated to the STI;
4. consider appeals of the students;
- approve decisions of the students self-government.
7. The Rector shall be a representative to the STI in all the High School affairs. The Rector shall supervise over, manage the STI activities and be responsible for it, observe the Republic of Latvia legislative acts upon realization of the high school law, requirements of the By-laws, decisions of the constituent assembly or Senate.
8. The Auditing Committee shall control the compliance of all the STI lines of activity with the current legislative acts, the STI By-laws and decisions of the governing institutions.
9. The Auditing Committee shall audit the STI economic and financial activity, the High School activities in all the spheres: educational, scientific research and administrative-economical.
10. The Arbitration shall consider:
- claims of the students and academic staff on the restriction or violation of the academic freedoms and rights stipulated in the STI By-laws;
- disputes between the High School officials as well as the governing institutions of the structural units which are in the subordinate relations;
- applications of the students and academic staff on the facts of the spiritual injury or humiliation of the person's dignity.
V. STAFF
1. The STI staff shall be formed by:
- the students;
- the academic staff for whom the STI is the basic place of employment;
- the general personnel for whom the STI is the basic place of employment.
2. The STI academic staff shall be formed by:
- the professors;
- the assistant professors (or leading researchers);
- the lecturers.
3. The remuneration principles shall be determined by the Senate and the STI founders, but the remuneration rate cannot be less that the rate designated by the Cabinet of Ministers.
VI. THE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
1. The STI students shall be:
- the bachelor's educational program students;
- the professional educational program students.
2. The right to study in the STI shall be granted to each Latvian citizen, permanent residents of the Republic, as well as to the persons who are issued permanent residence permits. In order to study in the STI, a document certifying the secondary education acquisition shall be required.
3. The STI immatriculation shall be in compliance with the enrollment regulations, announced not later than five months before the commencement of the relevant studies. The enrollment regulations shall be approved by the Senate each year.
4. The languages utilization within the course of the STI educational program completion, shall be stipulated by the Republic of Latvia law of language.
5. The tuition fee shall be covered by the natural persons and legal entities in accordance with the agreements concluded by the STI with the students. The number of students and the rate of the tuition fee shall be designated by the founders.
6. The STI students shall have their self-government. It shall function in compliance with the regulations worked out by the students and approved by the STI Senate.