FKIP – Faculty of Teacher Training and Education (FKIP) Sebelas Maret University (UNS) Surakarta held an Inaugural Lecture for Postgraduate Students for the August 2023 Academic Year (TA) which included master’s (S-2) and doctoral (S-3) program students on Tuesday (5 /9/2023) offline in the Hall of Building G, 3rd Floor, FKIP UNS. This activity aims to equip new students with thematic insight and equalize perceptions regarding the learning process and academic provisions that apply at FKIP UNS.

The inaugural lecture was opened with an activity report delivered by Yunanto, S.T., M.Si. as Administrative Coordinator of FKIP UNS. Then, the activity continued with remarks by the Dean of FKIP UNS, Prof. Dr. Mardiayana, M.Sc. In his speech, he welcomed all new FKIP UNS Postgraduate students.

“Welcome to FKIP UNS. Congratulations on being accepted as a new doctoral and master’s student at FKIP UNS. This is happiness for all of us. “For us, we are happy because we were given the mandate to hold lectures at the postgraduate level and for students this is happiness because they have the opportunity to study at the postgraduate level and develop their competencies,” said Prof. Mardiyana.

After the welcoming session, the activity continued with the introduction of faculty leaders and heads of study programs by Dr. Dewi Kusuma Wardani, M.Sc. as Deputy Dean for Human Resources, Finance, and Logistics. Next, material regarding academic policies presented by Prof. Dr. Slamet Subiiyantoro, M.Si as Deputy Dean for Academic, Research and Student Affairs FKIP UNS and SIAKAD technical and administration by Yosafat Christiantono as FKIP UNS Academic Team.

After this presentation, the activity continued with the Inaugural Lecture for Postgraduate Students FKIP UNS for the August 2023 academic year. Moderated by Dr. Nur Arifah Drajati, M.Pd. as a Lecturer at FKIP UNS, the first lecture presented a guest speaker. He is Prof. Dr. Mochamad Bruri Triyono, M.Pd. from Yogyakarta State University (UNY).

Prof. Bruri presented material entitled “Educational Issues and Problems in Human Resource Development: Master and Dissertation Research Topics”. In this presentation, he said that currently, education in Indonesia has 4 problems and challenges.

“There are several problems and challenges in education. The main problem is the relevance and collaboration of education with the world of work. Other problems and challenges include vertical and horizontal misalignment or graduates working in inappropriate fields, overqualified or underqualified. “Other problems include equal access to education for all or education for all as well as improving and equalizing the quality of education,” explained Prof. Bruri.

After the presentation of the material, the activity continued with a question and answer session and ended with a joint documentation session.

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