ACADEMIC VICE PRESIDENT OFFICE
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OVERVIEW
WELCOME TO OFFICE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT FOR ACADEMIC AFFAIRS
Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs is responsible body for planning and executing all administrative tasks which are related to the actual teaching learning process. The vice president is directly accountable to the President of the college.
The vice President oversees the following offices:
- Academic Programs Office
- Research and Publication Office
- Quality & Examination Office
- Instructional Design Office
If you would like to contact the vice president regarding your business with one of the offices under the vice president, please feel free to visit my office or send your requests by clicking the button below or using the following Address:
Phone: +251
Email: academicvp@paradigm.edu.et.
ACADEMIC PROGRAMS
ACADEMIC PROGRAMS OFFICE
The Academic Programs office of Paradigm College is in charge of planning, implementing and monitoring the actual teaching and learning process of the college in all online and onsite programs. The Academic Program office comprises Academic Counselors who are responsible to provide one-to-one support for every student who demonstrate interest for admission to the college and submit application, or admitted to a program. The Academic Programs office oversees the following Programs in all the regular, extension and online modes of learning:
1. Master Programs
- Master in Educational Leadership
- Master in Philosophy
- Master in Social-work
- Master in Languages
- Master in Economics
- Masters in Business Administration
- Masters in Project Planning and Management
2. Bachelor Programs
- Bachelor in Leadership
- Bachelor in Philosophy
- Bachelor in Management
- Bachelor in Economics
- Bachelor in Accounting
More information about each program is available under the programs page located under main menu Programs.
RESEARCH & PUBLICATION
OFFICE OF RESEARCH & PUBLICATION
The Research and Publication Office of Paradigm College is responsible to the production and dissemination of high quality Academic and community based researches. Research programs are one of the most important values of Paradigm College. The research and community service office of Paradigm College leads both analytic and applied research projects that can extend the boundaries of our epistemic horizon and solve the over increasing problems of our communities and our globe at large.
Research
All the research programs and projects are jointly designed and and developed and carried out in collaboration with our faculty, research team, students, and industries. In addition, our office also coordinates with various branches of government so that local and federal policy makers and executive bodies would benefit from the latest research findings.
Our Research projects are funded in two mechanisms. The first one is by using the direct research fund allocated by the College for this purpose. Second, as the College is working closely with wide varieties of industries, international organizations and the government, it has developed a long list of thematic research areas which most of them has funds promised to be granted by a particular private or governmental organizations. Upon the approval of a research topic, the College will connect the faculty or student researcher to the company for full or partial funding of the research project.
Publication
The Research Quality Assurance and Publication Department of Paradigm College is dedicated to the verification and dissemination of research findings via academic journal publications, social media outlet and official channel with sponsored companies and respective government offices.
One of the problems identified in the Ethiopians research tradition is that many of the research findings are confined to the Universities’ archives or libraries; and are made accessible only to the academic community. If the findings of our research do not reach out to the concerned body, we cannot solve the problem or change our behavior under discussion.
In order to solve this problem, the Publication Department of Paradigm College has organized both academic and public dissemination and publication mechanisms. For academic, we have established annual Research symposium and the publication the articles in the form of proceedings. In addition, faculty members will publish their original works to international journals in their own profession. In order to address the wider public who do not have access to the journals either due to language barrier or the complexity of the academic articles, we have introduced monthly newsletter published in English and Amharic. Furthermore, our department will uses our official social media accounts to disseminate breakthrough findings to the wider public.
If you would like to contact the Research Director, please feel free to visit my office or send your requests by clicking the button below or using the following Address:
Phone: +251
Email: research@paradigm.edu.et.
QUALITY & EXAMINATION
OFFICE OF ACADEMIC QUALITY EXAMINATIONS
Paradigm College is committed to the assurance of quality education in all our programs. Thus, it has a dedicated office in charge of assuring the Academic Quality and Examination designed and administered b y the college. In general, our office guides and controls the process of examinations and quality of education in all the following six stages.
1. Curriculum Design Phase
We actively involve in the needs assessment and curriculum design process to make sure we have included the contents that students need in the actual market in their respective industries.
2. Faculty members recruitment
We also participate in the recruitment of faculty members to make sure that we have met the right experts to deliver the curriculum.
3. Digital Content Creation Phase
We check and approve every single digital course content if it is tailored to satisfies the requirements set by the University Legislation and the federal Higher Education Relevance and Quality Assurance Authority (HERQA).
4. Student Learning Phase
Our office also supervises students online learning process to check if students are provided with sufficient individualized technical support from out technical team members and live academic tutorials by their professors according to the College’s Academic Calendar.
5. Internal Examinations
We periodically control the administration process of schedule quizzes, and Final examinations if they are free from cheating using online examination monitoring technologies. in addition we use modern statistical analysis applications to measure the validity and reliably of test items in our question bank and improve the quality of our tests in the future.
6. External Examinations & Standardized Professional Tests
In addition to our Internal examination quality control system, we also organize and collaborate with external examiners to help our students claim professional Certifications; and verify whether our university is up-to the standard of other international universities.
Remember:
If you have any questions, select the appropriate online form and send us your requests electronically in seconds. We are always online to respond to your requests in a timely manner.
If you would like to contact the Examination and Academic Quality Officer, please feel free to visit my office or send your requests by clicking the button below or using the following Address:
Phone: +251
Email: exam@paradigm.edu.et.
INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN
INSTRUCTION DESIGN OFFICE
The Instructional Design Office is responsible to lead the online course design and maintenance of the college. Instructional Design Team comprises well experienced instructional designers, LMS administrators, Content Creators, graphic designers, video and audio editors, pedagogics, story writers, film directors, narrators, language editors and photographers whose main job is supporting the faculty to produce high quality video lessons which are ready to uploaded to the LMS. If you need any support in your journey towards completing your course creation please feel free to contact the Instructional Design Team.
Senior Instructional Designer
Phone:
Email: studio@paradigm.edu.et
Remember:
If you would like to know more, please visit the Frequently Asked Questions part at the end of this page; or download and read our Students’ Orientation Manual PDF document from the listed on the right side bar of this page. Or contact us by completing the Online form by clicking the green “CONTACT V/PREDIDENT” button below. We are always online to respond to your requests in a timely manner.
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MEET THE ACADEMIC VICE PRESIDENT
Academic Vice President
Dear Visitors,
Welcome to the Academic vice president office of Paradigm College! My office serves as the engine room of the academic train where students and the academic community travel through the routes of knowledge formation, research, innovation towards the destination of community development and knowledge formation, and new discoveries. I am glad that I am here to serve you achieve this marvelous goal. At premium college, we believe, every student and academic staff deserves high quality and instant service at any time.
My office is always open for anyone who would like to meet. If you have any question or concerns, please feel free to contact me by clicking the CONTACT ACADEMIC VP button or using my address listed below.
Academic Vice President
Email: academicvp@paradigm.edu.et
Phone: +251-
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
- The requirements to join Paradigm College undergraduate program is basically similar in all departments.
- It may differ from year to year; nevertheless it is always according to the guidelines set by the FDRE Ministry of Higher Education.
- Those from the preparatory program should fulfill the minimum requirement of the Ministry of Education in their national exams and /or;
- Those who prefer to upgrade or continue their degree in Sociology & Social Work need to have a diploma in relevant fields of studies from recognized higher educational institutions (universities and colleges).
- The program takes four years to complete.
- You have to successfully complete a minimum of 120 credit hours to graduate.
- You need to have cumulative GPA not less than 2.00 and remove the “F” grade scored in any of the courses.
- You Should meet the minimum requirement set for the major course which is you have to get a “C” mark.
- It is recommended if a student could take approximately 7.5 credit hours every term to complete his study in four years.
- You can take more than or less than the recommended number of credit limits per term if you get approval from your course counselor.
- If you take less than 7.5 credit hours every term, you will need more than four years to complete your undergraduate study.
- The average annual total credit hour you may be permitted would not be grater than 36 credit hour.
- Each module will be represented with Four Block letters acronym for the course. Followed by hyphen and terminated with four digit numbers as in ENLA-M1001
- Each Course will be represented by Four Block letters acronym for the course. Followed by with four digit numbers as in ENLA1001 (There should be no space between the characters in the case of course code)
- The first four digit is a convenient acronym of the course full name
- The –M in the module name represents the word Module and differentiates module codes with course codes (It is applied only to module codes; but not course codes)
- The Last four numerical digits represents the following:
- The first numerical digit represents the class year in which the courses may be taken. Thus 1 represents first year; 2 represents 2nd year… (1-4 undergraduate and 5-9 graduate courses)
- The 2nd numerical digit represents whether the course has one prerequisite, more than one prerequisite or has no prerequisites. Thus 0 represents no prerequisite; 1 represents one prerequisite and 2 stand for courses with more than one prerequisites (Ranges between 0-2)
- The last two numerical digits stands for the course numbers as indicated in the college’s central course catalogue. Each course in a college should have a unique number between 01 and 99 (Ranges between 01-99)
- A program clustered into nine modules each with three to five courses;
- A program composite of 40% descriptive, theoretical and positivist, and 60% normative, knowledge and capacity building courses;
- A program composite of 50% of endogenous sources and realities and 50% exogenous sources and realities of specialized knowledge all gravitating to the main subject – matter civics and ethics;
- A program composite of systematic comparison and contrast between theory and practice with at least 15% field work and practical observations;
- The entire program to be guided by Criterion-referenced evaluation approach, with continuous assessment as an integral part of the teaching learning process
- A program systematically periodized in to 4 phases. These phases are the following:
- Knowledge broadening Phase (familiarizing with academic civic and ethics)
- Knowledge–Building (Describing) Phase;
- Enquiry Provoking Phase; and
- Analysis conducting and criticizing Phase.
- A program composite of self confidence – building, self – expression qualities, dialogue provoking and consensus building techniques facilitated by group discussion sessions, multimedia lectures and students’ reactions, etc particularly through descriptive courses.
- The grading system is depend on the rules and regulations of the college as stipulated in the College’s Senate Legislation.
- Both traditional credit hour system and European Credit Transfer Systems (ECTS) will be used.
- 1 credit hour is equivalent with 1.66 ECTS; thus a 3 credit hour course will have 3 x 1.66 = 5 ECTS
- Each course in the catalogue is assigned a credit hour and European Credit Transfer system (ECTS) point value so that teachers and students would understand how much time and load it takes to complete the course.Most Western European countries have moved to the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS).
- This system was developed by the European Commission to provide common overseas procedures for recognizing studies completed within participating countries within Europe.In ECTS terms, 60 credits represent the full time load of an academic year of full-time study, 30 credits represent the full time load of an academic semester of full-time study.
- At Paradigm College, this would equal 30 MC credits for a full-time academic year, 15 MC credits for a full-time academic semester.
- At Paradigm College, we use American Credit Hour system. In order to get the equivalence value of American Credit hour point to ECTS point, multiply the Credit hour points by 2 or (divide ECTS in half).Working Hours or Student’s work load is the average total time it takes to complete the course. Work load is calculated by multiplying every ECTS credit point by 25-30 hours.
- At Paradigm College we believe that one ECTS takes 25 working hours for many courses. For example, since three credit hour course is equivalent to 6 ECTS; In order to get the total working load or students working hours in a 6 ECTS course, simply multiply 25 hours by 6 ECTS gives us 150 Students Working Hour per 3 cr. Hrs course.
- Your program advisor will be responsible to notify you about the next semester courses. However, if you would like to find out any information about your program in general or your course in particular, first always select your program from the main menu under programs
- Then, select the Course Catalog option under your Program menu to access the course breakdown page that contains all your courses in a series of tables for each term. As all courses are organized in chronological order, you can see the list of courses you would like to take or check in their respective terms.
- If you are not sure which course has a prerequisite or whether you can take a particular course in a particular term you can always consult your Course counselor.
- Every term, your Course Counselor sends the list of courses you are supposed to take to the finance and accounting Office. The Office of finance will then, send you an invoice containing the list of courses and the respective amount of Tuition and Registration Fee with its due date and payment account information.
- If you find your invoice as expected you can pay your tuition in one o the following ways:
- Pay the Amount in cash to the college office of finance
- Deposit the amount to our Bank account indicated in the invoice
- Pay using TeleBirr mobile payment method for the college’s TeleBirr account indicated on the invoice.
- If you are an international student, you can pay online using our PayPal gateway
- If you have got any difficulty, feel free to contact the finance and accounting office using the phone number or email. For more, Click here.