TIME.CO, Jakarta – Controversy over students’ final homework e thesis has become a widely discussed topic recently with the publication of the Regulation of the Minister of Education, Culture, Research and Technology (Permendikbudristek) Number 53 of 2023 related to quality assurance in higher education. One of the salient points of this rule is in fact linked to the thesis that it is no longer mandatory since thesis D4 and S1 students.
Pl. Director General of Higher Education, Research and Technology Nizam reiterated that tertiary institutions are free to determine the form of final appointment at undergraduate and diploma levels. However, this decision is up to each study program which will subsequently be applied to all student.
This means that students are not free to individually choose the form of their final assignment. “Students can then choose what they want? Yes, it cannot be like that. Because tertiary institutions will later determine the standards in these tertiary institutions,” said Nizam at the office of the Ministry of Education and Culture, Friday 1 September 2023.
According to Nizam, with this new regulation the Ministry of Education and Culture wants to realize the spirit of higher education, i.e. academic autonomy. So that setting the standards is left to each university.
Universities can now award final assignments in the form of a thesis, project, prototype or other forms according to their individual needs and characteristics. “Why all this time, right? one suitable for everyone. “Well, it doesn’t have to be that way,” said Nizam. “In my opinion this must still refer to what has been established by the university.”
Rules for final student assignments that include graduate competency standards are contained in a series of articles in Permendikbud number 53 of 2023. Here are the contents:
Article 18
Announcement
The study paths of the three-year or applied degree courses ensure the achievement of graduates’ skills through:
A. assign final tasks which may be in the form of a thesis, prototype, project or other similar form of final task, either individually or in a group; OR
B. implementation of a project-based curriculum or other similar forms of learning and assessments that can demonstrate achievement of competencies
graduate.
Article 19
(1) In the applied master’s/master’s program, the study load is between 54 (fifty-four) credit units per semester and 72 (seventy-two) credit units per semester designed with a curriculum duration of between 3 (three) semesters and 4 (three) semesters. four)
semester.
(2) Students in the master’s/applied master’s program must be assigned a final assignment in the form of a thesis, prototype, project or other similar form of final assignment.
Article 20
(1) In the doctor/applied doctor program, the Curriculum Travel Time is planned over 6 (six) semesters consisting of:
A. 2 (two) semesters of learning to support research; AND
B. 4 (four) semesters of research.
(2) The learning referred to in paragraph 1 letter a may be excluded from high schools for students who possess sufficient knowledge and skills to carry out research activities.
(3) Students in the doctoral/applied doctoral program must be assigned a final assignment in the form of a thesis, prototype, project, or other similar form of final assignment.
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