Faculty of Commercial and Business Sciences

The FKPV has adopted a comprehensive, extensive and detailed strategic plan. The expert group suggests that the faculty should consider a clearer orientation of professional and research activities. At the same time, it would be useful to include in the strategic plan the key competences that are assessed as excellence in the commercial-business and professional profile and to place emphasis on the key competences that are recognised as excellence in the commercial-business, scientific and professional activities in a broader sense. All bodies of the institution operate properly and in accordance with legislation and established standards. In a discussion with various stakeholders of the faculty, a group of experts concluded that all professional areas are adequately and equally represented in the bodies. The faculty considering amending its statutes to include a representative of the external environment in the work of the Faculty Senate. Notwithstanding the fact that there are relatively few full-time employees at the faculty or that they are only employed to a limited extent, all processes and functions of the Faculty function properly and at the same time the faculty involves as many different interest groups as possible in the administration and development of the Faculty. The Faculty is clearly interdisciplinary in its undergraduate and postgraduate programmes and subjects (commerce, economics, business informatics, tourism, security management), but the Faculty's professional and scientific research activities do not follow this interdisciplinarity. The faculty does not guarantee successful professional and academic activity (publications, projects, research) in each of these areas. Professional practise is appropriately systematised and implemented at the Faculty. The Faculty co-operation with representatives of employers and the regional economic environment is based on a good knowledge of their needs and regular formal and informal contacts. Co-operation with various stakeholders from the environment is complemented by lecturers working in the professional field with key bodies from the business community and state administration. The Faculty has an approved quality procedure which sets out the processes and procedures for management, monitoring and quality assurance. Based on the FKPV statutes, all staff are responsible for monitoring and quality assurance. Decisions on self-evaluation measures are made in the Quality Commission, the Academic Assembly, the Senate, the Executive Board and the Student Council. The Quality Commission assesses the quality of the Faculty by monitoring and implementing institutional and programme quality, the effectiveness of educational and scientific research work and the functioning of the Faculty as a whole. The Quality Commission consists of five members, namely two academic teachers or academic staff, one administrative staff member, one professional staff member and one student representative. The faculty provides regular information on study programmes and activities throughout the academic year. The faculty pays particular attention to information days, which it supports with advertising and informs students by e-mail. Information about the faculty's activities is publicly available on the school's website in the study programmes section. Students are familiar with how to obtain information and know how to access it. For all study programmes there is a presented curriculum, course plans, competences acquired, information on the implementation and progression of the study programme, tuition fees, areas of application, etc. Individual university teachers do very little or no professional or academic research work, which is evident from the available databases and records. Four contract university lecturers were found not to be recorded in the SICRIS or COBBIS database. It is much more difficult for university lecturers who are not professionally or academically active in research to pass on their knowledge and experience from professional and academic research work to students in an appropriate manner (Article 13 - l NAKVIS). The Faculty offers students various forms of support and advice in the Study office, the Office for International Cooperation and the Career Centre. The Stady office is the central point of contact for prospective and enrolled students, lecturers and members of the Alumni Club. The academic staff respond to the diversity and needs of the students in a very individualised way. Each student is treated individually and according to their needs. Foreign students are also guaranteed appropriate help from the International Office. The Faculty monitors student satisfaction with services in an appropriate manner by conducting surveys. The Faculty has defined the rights and obligations of students in a separate chapter of the Statute (Articles 79, 80, 81 and 82 of the FKPV Statute), in accordance with Article 66 of the Law on Higher Education. The Statute (Articles 76, 77 and 78 of the FKPV Statute) also regulates the status of students in detail and accordingly. Students influence the implementation of the Faculty's activities in various ways. They can submit their suggestions, opinions and comments through the Student Council and other faculty committees on which they serve, and many of their suggestions are also forwarded to the Faculty Report and through other informal channels. Based on their suggestions and comments, the faculty updates the implementation of faculty activities. Student involvement in changing study programmes is less evident, although students say in the interview that they also have the opportunity to make informal suggestions and comments in this area. The facilities at the faculty are suitable for students with special needs. The entrance to the building is equipped with a suitable ramp and there is an elevator in the building. The elevator does not have switches for the blind and visually impaired or two tone signals for the deaf and hard of hearing. The lecture theatres have enough space for a wheelchair at the front. A group of experts suggests that the faculty should additionally look into the possibility of making adaptations for students with special needs (elevator, toilets, waymarking). The faculty receives 90% of its income from tuition fees and 10% from projects. In terms of expenditure, the focus is on salary and service costs, which account for around 90% of all expenditure. material costs and investments account for 10% of expenditure. In the past periods 2020 and 2021, the faculty has performed successfully and there are no major deviations. In 2022, there was an overspend of EUR 58,456.49 due to a 400% increase in the price of energy products, which was not foreseen. The plan for 2023/24 and 2024/25 provides for the stabilisation of income and expenditure as well as the liquidity of the facility. EUR 200,000 in investments are planned for 2023/24 and 2024/25. Prior to the second visit, the faculty sent an additional documentation as follows: - Action plan based on the recommendations of the Nakvis (reaccreditation of 8/1 and 9/1) - Action plan for the acquisition of projects and the development of professional activities in the period 2024-25 - Action plan to increase the volume of publications and the success of the institutions' professional and scientific research work in the period 2024−2025 - Guidelines for lecturers on the possibilities of publishing their work - Explanation of the partial fulfilment of quality standards (scientific, professional, research or artistic achievements of university lecturers and academic staff) In the action plan, the faculty has presented suitable measures to eliminate the partial fulfilment of the standards and to realise opportunities for improvement on the basis of the recommendations of the Nakvis (reaccreditation of 8.1. and 9.1.). We took the documents into account when preparing the final report and supplemented the planned measures from the material sent to us when defining the main opportunities for improvement and the partial fulfilment of the quality standards. On 23 May 2024, the Institute submitted a response to the report stating that the partial non-compliance related to the professional and scientific research work for the measures set out in the Action Plan based on the recommendations of NAKVIS experts (re-accreditation of 8.1. and 9.1.). The expert group is of the opinion that by implementing the measures set out in the action plan, the quality standard in relation to professional scientific work can be met.