UPDATES
MS FSCC Timeline of Major Activities
Kick-off Meeting
- Final Project Plans and Expected Outputs of the project, including the role/responsibility of each partner
- Directory of all Project partners (specific contact persons)
November 7-8, 2016
November 7-8, 2016
Regional Workshop
- Professional Profiles of Desired MS FSCC graduates based on Job Market Demand and Supply in SEA to address FS and CC issues
- Learning Outcomes (Knowledge, Skills, Attitudes, Competencies) for Desired MS FSCC Curriculum
Regional Workshop
- Draft Curriculum – including pairing of UC members and semesters with courses, faculty supervisors
November 7-8, 2016
January 17-23, 2017
Circular Mission
- Recommended list of course offering and thesis supervisors per track/specialization
- List of constraints/issues and gaps that need to be addressed (and recommendations, if any)
- Recommended list of training courses for faculty and staff (for endorsement to Agrinatura)
- Possible Mobility Arrangements
Development of Software Program for Students Record and Project Website
- Online application software
- Student Records Database
- MS FSCC website
February to March 2017
February 14-16, 2017
Regional Workshop
- Draft QA strategy (recruitment & admission of students, mobilities, credit transfers, assessment schemes, thesis, faculty & staff qualifications & training needs, student support services)
- Final MS FSCC Curriculum with Draft Program Guide (Course Catalog and List of Thesis Supervisors)
- Summer School Topics (for collaboration with BOKU)
- Final QA Schemes on: Recruitment and Admission Policies and Procedures; Assessment and Credit Transfers; Student Support Services
- List of the faculty and staff that need to undergo trainings and final definition of the training needs
Call for Applications (First Batch)
- Simultaneous Announcement in Websites of all partners
- Posters and Invitation Letters sent to Target Stakeholders
May 1, 2017
June 2, 2017
Deadline for Applications (First Batch)
- List of all applicants (per university)
Selection Period (First Batch)
- Shortlist of candidates and their possible supervisors per university
June 5-6, 2017
June 7-8, 2017
Final Selection Meeting (First Batch)
- List of admitted students and supervisors per pair of UC members
- List of faculty and staff to undergo trainings
- Program Guide
- Student Handbook
Release of Results of the Selection Process (First Batch)
- Admission notices sent to qualified applicants
June 23, 2017
July 10-28, 2017
Summer School 1 and Orientation (First Batch)
- Orientation
- Summer School
First Semester Enrolment (First Batch)
- List of Courses enrolled by each student
August-September 2017
3 November 2017
Call for Applications (Second Batch Batch)
- Simultaneous Announcement in Websites of all partners
- Posters and Invitation Letters sent to Target Stakeholders
- lead insitution: SEARCA
Regional Workshop and Updates for Call of Second Batch
- Update of first batch of students
- List of admitted students and supervisors per pair of UC members for second batch of students
- List of faculty and staff to undergo trainings
12-13 December 2017
19-21 March 2018
Faculty and Staff Training
- Joint MS FSCC degree curriculum development
Project Review Meeting
- Review Meeting
- Selection of non-degree starting August 2018
- Preparation for Summer School
22-23 March 2018
March 2018
Release of Results of the Selection Process (Second Batch)
- Admission notices sent to qualified applicants
Summer School and Orientation for Second Batch of MS FSCC students
- Staff Training on July 16-20
- Held at Selangor, Malaysia
16-28 July 2018
7-11 August 2018
Workshop in Bogor, Indonesia
- Finalize the arrangements for the different specialization areas of the Joint MS FSCC Curriculum
- Draft the MOA for its Joint Implementation
First Semester Enrolment of Batch 2 Students
August 2018
October 2018
MS FSCC students on mobility to EU (First Batch)
Organization and Implementation of Exchanges for Batch 2 Students within ASEAN and to EU partner universities
January 2019
July 2019
Summer School 2019
- Organized by University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB), the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU), Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM), and SEARCA on 15 – 31 July 2019.
- Held in Laguna and Camarines Sur, Philippines
Final Project Workshop
- Final Project Meeting attended by the project partners to discuss the project accomplishments vis-a-vis the planned targets and the difficulties and challenges met in the project implementation which are to be included in the project report. The meeting also discussed the next steps and prospective cooperation and new projects arising from the MS FSCC.
- Conducted on 3-4 October 2019 at Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand
October 2019
July 2020
Final Project Report Submission
MS FSCC program offering under the UC
- The MS FSCC program and activities will continue to run under the Southeast Asian University Consortium for Graduate Education in Agriculture and Natural Resources (UC) projects
- The curriculum is undergoing different stages of approval in UC member universities with target offering for AY 2020-2021
August 2020
Contact Us
Contact Details
- UC Secretariat Address: Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA)
College, Los Baños, 4031 Laguna, Philippines - T: +63 49 536 2290; 554 9330 to 39 (local 2200) (Laguna);
+63 2 8657 1300 to 1302 (local 2200) (Manila) - F: + 63 49 536 4153
- E-mail Address: info@msfscc.org; gsid@searca.org