UNIVERSIDADE EDUARDO MONDLANE
Management Meeting
UEM-Swedish Government
Agreement 2011 – 2015
Management Team
Profa Ana Mondjana, Carlos Lucas, Bettencourt
Capece, Orton Malipa, Dulce Fife, Vasco Manjate
Stockholm, 02 November 2014
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Presentation of the summary
Draft Evaluation Committee Report
For the mid-term evaluation held during
June 9-20, 2014 at UEM, Maputo,
Mozambique
on the
Swedish continued research cooperation
with Eduardo Mondlane University for
the period 2011 - 2015
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ToRs for the EC Members
The report from the evaluation starts with presenting the
Terms of reference, highlighting the following:
1.Objectives of the programme UEM-Sweden 2011-2015;
2.Expected results of the Swedish continued research
cooperation with UEM;
The purpose is to evaluate the quality of the research, MSc
and PhD education performed from the Swedish continued
research cooperation with UEM, reflect on its relation and
relevance to best international practices and to the mission of
the profession, and most importantly, to provide
recommendations and guidelines for the future development
of the Program in the interest of future development of UEM.
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Members of the Evaluation Committee
Professor
Ashwani Gupta
USA
Professor
Mohamed El Tom
Sudan
Professor
Josse G. De Baerdemaeker
Belgium
Professor Koos Coetzer
South Africa
Professor
Somrat Kerdsuwan
Thailand
Professor
Sutapat Kwankaomeng
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Thailand
Working methodology of MEC
 Desk research of the SPECIFIC AGREEMENT BETWEEN
SWEDEN AND THE GOVERNMENT OF MOZAMBIQUE
ON CONTINUED RESEARCH COOPERATION WITH
EDUARDO MONDLANE UNIVERSITY plus 24 documents.
 Interviews to students: 09, 10, 18 and 19 June
 Attending the Annual Review Meeting (11 June):
Management Team, ISP, Embassy, 13 Coordinators
 Seminars with students (12, 13, 16 and 17 June): 39 PhD,
7 MSc and 2 PhD holders
 Meetings Top Management of UEM: Rector, 2 Vice-Rectors
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Seminars (12, 13, 16 and 17 June 2014)
 Presentation (15 min) followed by questions and answers
(20 min) for PhD holders (2 graduated in 2013):
Luis Cristóvão
 Presentation (15 min) followed by
questions and answers (20 min) for
the 39 ongoing PhD students
Jaime Palalane
Isabel
Guiamba
 Presentation (15 min)
followed by questions and
answers (15 min) for the 7
ongoing MSc students
Lúcia
Domingos Ginja
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1. Program of the Mid-term Ealuation
Findings (1-1/2):
• The evaluation was opened with a welcome address by the
Rector, Vice-Rector;
• Dr. Ulla Andren, Ambassador of Sweden in Mozambique
attended the opening ceremony of the event and gave a
background and history of the Swedish support to UEM. She
provided very favorable remarks on the Swedish support to
UEM and provided an indication of future support.
• Many of the documents needed, including proposal review
comments, and annual progress reports were, for most part,
provided to all members of the evaluation team. The
documents lacked consistency between them. Some
documents lacked quality and detailed information.
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1. Program of the Mid-term Ealuation
Findings (1-2/2):
• Almost all students gave well timed presentation in the time
allocated to them. The contents however were most part at
the high administrative level and lacked technical details.
• All staff/student oral presentation and interviews with the
evaluation committee were in English. All of them could
speak English well. The staff/ student ability to express
themselves in English proficiently was duly recognized.
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1. Program of the Mid-term Ealuation
Recommendations:
• All members of the academic staff should be encouraged to
attend the evaluation meeting in its entirety. They should also
participate in discussions along with their graduate students;
• Student presentations should include more technical content,
work plans and a plan of expected accomplishments with
defined time schedules possibly using Gantt chart for every
year as well as the entire programme;
• The programme evaluation should be one week in time
duration with some smaller part of the programme evaluated
one year and the remaining programmes evaluated in the
following year.
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2. Collaborative research and postgraduate training
Findings (2-1/2):
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All research topics in the various programmes were carefully selected
with mutual consent between the supervisors at partner institutions in
Sweden and South Africa, student interest and UEM academic staff
members who serve as local supervisors to students;
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In all cases the focus is on capacity building at UEM while
conducting research at host institution since the needed research
facilities at UEM are not available;
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All students after finishing their graduate work return back to
Mozambique to serve their country. This will help build the local
capacity and infrastructure in due time;
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The value of the reward is limitless with slow but evolved
production of few PhD and Master degrees to-date. All students
conducted their research at partner institutions, mostly on a sandwich
type arrangement
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2. Collaborative research and postgraduate training
Findings (2-2/2):
• All students at
opportunities;
partner
institutions
get
good
networking
• Almost all students are involved in undergraduate teaching so they
get teaching experiences as employees of UEM;
• Several supervisors from Sweden attended the mid-term evaluation
and listened to the presentations, especially given by their own
students;
• The SIDA supported programme provided good opportunities for
students to see and conduct research at other locations/institutions
and directions for future research under advisement of top leaders
in the field;
• The students in the programme showed strong desire to publish
their research findings in journals and also at international
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conferences.
2. Collaborative research and postgraduate training
Recommendations:
• Better communication amongst supervisors and cosupervisor at host institution and programme coordinators at
UEM, and student is recommended;
• Programme description of MSc programme engaging
external supervisors and local coordinators can provide a
pivotal role to set a good model;
• Extraordinary successes of the students should be reflected
in some form of reward to local supervisors so that they can
take pride in the student research accomplishments;
• The local supervisors should be rewarded for research
productivity with a larger impact/relevance of research.
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3 Research capacity
Findings:
• The programme is diverse and of great breadth that provides
potential for links to conduct cross-cutting research
opportunities between faculty and research groups at UEM
and elsewhere;
• This programme has major improvements with significant
potential for capacity building through education, training and
entrepreneurship;
• Through the cooperation UEM aims to foster research
activities that will help enhance student training and
education to subsequently build focused research
programmes at UEM.
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3 Research capacity
Recommendations:
 No research seminars are offered at the section,
department, faculty or campus level to create a culture of
research. Every student or staff member with a research
assignment should be required to give a technical
research presentation in English upon their return from
Sweden or South Africa on their progress of the research.
 The committee noted a wide range of PhD as well as MSc
thesis topics. This is good from the mere research
programme expansion but the coverage and depth is of
concern. Building the infrastructure requires both depth
and breadth..
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4 Research environment and infraestrucxture
Findings:
• The evaluators had the opportunity to visit and see the
laboratory facilities and departmental library of the
Chemistry department. The state of this laboratory facility
as well as the departmental library was poor;
• A functional central library is available with a good quiet
learning environment wherein the students can seek basic
information. Some electronic journals are also available in
the new central library.
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4 Research environment and infraestrucxture
Recommendations:
• Further improve access to library with more electronic
subscriptions;
• The central library lacked many books and electronic
subscriptions to many journals that would be helpful in
student research;
• The UEM has some laboratory space and some nonfunctional equipment but without much of any
operational equipment. The functional facilities are far
from being adequate. Proper laboratory management can
help here;
• The UEM should gradually build the infrastructure to
provide support for the regular maintenance of the
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research instruments.
5 Research Management
Findings:
• Strong commitment and support to the SIDA program from the
UEM upper administration was noted;
• There is good governance of the SIDA project by the UEM
administration. All financial aspects are carefully checked and
evaluated;
• No real student complaints were received in any aspect during
interviews of several students other than relatively longer time
taken for procurement of consumables and equipment and
reimbursement of the expenses made by some students to
make small purchases necessary for conducting their research
work.
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5 Research Management
Recommendations:
• There should be course/modules on time management
and also on statistics at UEM or Sweden or South Africa;
• In addition the students should focus on results based
management approach with due consideration to design of
experiments and later to ‘statistical analysis’ of their data
obtained;
• The number of students supported on SIDA programme is
very healthy (e.g. 99 PhD and 46 MSc) but the numbers
graduated thus far is considered low. Many students
reported their PhD/MSc to finish in 2014 or 2015;
• It is for this reason the committee feels to have a
programme evaluation again sometime in middle of 2015 .
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Hints for discussion (by Dec2015)
1. How many PhD degrees per programme and in total?
2. Will How many MSc degrees per programme and in total?
3. How many papers published in scientific journals?
4. How many papers published in peer review conferences?
5. How many laboratories will be built at UEM?
6. etc
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