-       Delmon  University >Regulations for Academic Staff Promotions. >

First – Indicators of promotion:-

a) Teaching and supervision.

b) Research and academic publications.

c) Community and university services.

These indicators include the following:-

 A) Teaching and supervision:-

        The effective teaching is the most important duties for the academic member. Effective teaching includes the following factors:-

1- The effective participation in the process of teaching, teaching load, and curriculum variety.

2- The comprehensive knowledge of the academic material.

3- The ability to express ideas and transfer of knowledge.

4- The ability to motivate students and to create interest in the learning material.

5- The effective participation in students' supervision in the courses of their academic work.

6- Active participation in administrating examination by writing questions and analyzing results.

B) Research and Academic Publishing:-

  1- The academic staff member's work that is published in a refined magazine or journals, academic books and any other creativity work.

 2- The academic staff member achievement in his academic field.

  3- The academic staff member participation in research projects in the department, university, or outside.

C) Community and University service:-

1- The participation of the academic staff member in administrative work and committee in his department and the university.

2- The participation of the academic staff member in community service.

3- The activities and achievements in the occupation field.

Second – university guide for academic degrees:-

1- lecturer- must hold a master degree.

2- Assistant professor –

1- the academic staff member must hold PhD or a higher educational, occupational, scientific, or technical degree in the field of specialization where PhD is not given in the condition that the duration of study must be no less than three years minimum  after the first university degree (bachelor).

2- For promotion to an associated professor the academic staff member must stay in the rank of  assistant professor for (5) years in a well known university, during this time he must present (3) distinguished researches, in  (2) of them he is the sole author/writer.

3- Associate professor:-

1- The academic stuff member must hold a PhD degree.

2- For promotion to the rank of professor, the academic staff member must remain in the associate professor for (5) years in a well- known university, during this time he must present (4) original researches, in which (2) of them he is to be the sole author/writer.

4- The professor is to fulfill the conditions in part (2) and (3) in the university guide for academic degrees.

Third - General guide-lines for promotion:-

  1- To be promoted to any of the academic ranks the academic staff member needs to be successful and to improve himself under the indicators of teaching, supervision, academic research,  publication,  university and community service. As for promotion to professor, the academic staff member needs to prove excellent in the above mentioned domains.

 2-for promotion purposes, works published before obtaining the   PhD degree or derived directly from the dissertations of master and PhD or those presented in for promotion previously are eliminated and not looked at the evaluation process.

 3- The scientific publishing must be in academic refereed journals and magazines that the university approves of.

  4- The number of the specialized people to judge the academic work is to be (10). Three of them are to be chosen by the promotion committee to evaluate works presented by the academic staff member. The university is to have a yearly up-to-date name list of these specialized people for this purpose.

  5-The judges evaluate the academic work items using a special form for this purpose, his own evaluation for each research in a range between 1-5 as within the following criteria:-

1- Weak (1point).

2- Acceptable (2points).

3- Good (3 points).

4- Very good (4 points).

5- Excellent (5 points).

6- In all cases, the mean average of points must not be less than three for all judges.

7- In all cases the evaluation must not be less than good.

8- The academic promotion decision is to be taken in the light of   the achievement of the academic member as a whole.

9- For promotion purpose, a refereed book is dealt with as a single research.

Fourth – promotion procedures:-

1- The academic staff member applying for the promotion must make a formal request to the dean or the head of his department attached with (6) copies of the C.V and of each of the items from his academic research work, reports and/or documents of achievement presented for evaluation.

2- Personnel Department is to be contacted to confirm actual duration the academic member spent in the rank, for promotion purposes.

3- The promotion committee in the university checks documents presented for promotion in the following order department/faculty/university.

        4- The committee checks wither the whole package of documents presented for promotion is complete according to the following list:-

a) The original request for the promotion of the academic staff member.

b) The letter of fulfillment for the duration period in the rank for the academic staff member.

c) Six copies of each item of the academic work.

d) Students' evaluation for the academic staff member.

e) Any other documents of achievement under the indicators of promotions.

f) A list of referees from academic member list specialized in the field inside and outside the Kingdom of Bahrain.

5) Three referees specialized are chosen from the list evaluate the academic work: one from Bahrain University and two from well known Arab universities. All correspondences are done secretly to insure transparency.

6) Each referee is sent a copy of the academic work, C.V, evaluation form, and a copy of promotion regulations.

7) The procedures of the promotion go according to a specific time table. In case, one of the referee correspondences takes more than two months the work is sent to another referee, and the specialized committee is to consider all evaluations.

8) In case of approval, the university issues the promotion.

 9) In case of refusal, the academic staff member is informed about the reasons and is given the right to apply for promotion after one year taking in consideration notes and comments in the evaluation.

10) The academic promotion committee is to keep record of the evaluation forms.