Organisation and Structure

The faculty is headed by the Dean, assisted by two Vice-Deans and a Secretary-General. Its organisation follows the regulatory framework common to all faculties, applied across the faculty’s six departments and its library.

The four areas

The Vice-Deans

Two Vice-Deans share responsibility for academic affairs and for scientific affairs.

• Vice-Dean for studies and student affairs — student records service, statistics, information and guidance service, teaching and assessment service.
• Vice-Dean for postgraduate studies, scientific research and external relations — postgraduate training monitoring service, research activity monitoring service, cooperation and external relations service.

The Secretariat-General

• Human resources service — academic staff section, administrative, technical and service staff section.
• Budget and accounting service — budget section, accounting section.
• Facilities and maintenance service — facilities section, maintenance section.
• Scientific, cultural and sports activities service.
• Security.

The departments

Each head of department is assisted by two deputies.

• Deputy head of department for student records and undergraduate teaching staff — student records service, teaching and assessment monitoring service.
• Deputy head of department for postgraduate studies and scientific research — higher postgraduate and specialised postgraduate training service, research activity monitoring service.

The library

• Collection management service.
• Guidance and bibliographic research service.

Responsibilities

Vice-Dean for postgraduate studies, scientific research and external relations

• Overseeing the conduct of postgraduate entrance competitions.
• Taking or proposing the measures needed for postgraduate programmes to run properly.
• Ensuring that postgraduate dissertation and thesis defences run properly.
• Monitoring the conduct of research activities.
• Initiating partnership work with the socio-economic sectors.
• Initiating action to stimulate and strengthen inter-university cooperation, nationally and internationally.
• Implementing programmes for the further training and updating of academic staff.
• Overseeing the running of the Faculty Scientific Council and keeping its records.

They are assisted by the head of the postgraduate training monitoring service, the head of the research activity monitoring service and the head of the cooperation and external relations service.

Deputy head of department for postgraduate studies and scientific research

• Ensuring that postgraduate teaching runs properly.
• Ensuring that postgraduate programmes run properly.
• Monitoring research activities.
• Overseeing the running of the departmental scientific committee.

They are assisted by the head of the higher postgraduate and specialised postgraduate training service and the head of the research activity monitoring service.

Teaching facilities

Teaching and services are spread across four blocks and the library.

• Block A — the six departments, the laboratories and classrooms.
• Block B — administration, the library and classrooms.
• Block C — classrooms.
• Block D — STH unit and ST Engineering unit.
• Library — reading rooms and collections.

The faculty has classrooms and lecture theatres spread across all its blocks.