Newsline from the Board meeting of September 11, 2019

Vote on agreements

The Board gave a favorable opinion:

=> to the provision of premises between:

* University of Montpellier, Faculty of Science and Biocampus,

* The University of Montpellier, the Faculty of Science and the Montpellier Rectorate.

=> to the loan for the exhibition "La Tête et les Mains"between :

* The University of Montpellier, the Faculty of Science and the Midi-Maths association,

* Université de Montpellier, La Faculté des Sciences and Collège Gaston Bonheur in Trèbes (11),

* Université de Montpellier, La Faculté des Sciences and Lycée Champollion in Lattes (34).

=>tointer-university cooperation betweenthe University of Montpellier, the Faculty of Science, the Institut National d'Etudes Supérieures Agronomiques de Montpellier (Montpellier SupAgro), the Institut des Sciences et Industries du Vivant et de l'Environnement (AgroParis Tech), the Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3 and the University of Barcelona.

=> to inter-university cooperation betweenthe University of Montpellier and National Central University (Taiwan).

Modalities of Knowledge Control - MCC - (in French)

It was pointed out that there were 2,370 courses on offer at TU. All the requests for corrections submitted by the heads ofTU have been taken into account by the Faculty Management and will be forwarded to the component's Training Offer and Information System Department, which will be responsible for integrating them into Apogée.

The meeting gave unanimous approval to the Faculty of Science's MCCs for the 2019-2020 academic year.

The University Calendar of the Faculty of Science - year 2019-2020

Reminder: The first semester of the 2019-2020 FdS academic calendar was approved by the Board on March 22, 2019. In view of the work taking place on the Triolet Campus, the Board had taken the decision to wait for the progress of the works before deciding on the second semester.

Following simulations carried out by the Faculty's examination department, the Board approved the bachelor's and master's degree timetable.

These calendars are available on the Faculty of Science website.

Point Parcoursup/Administrative registrations

Mr. Richard Arinéro, Head of Pedagogy for the Bachelor's degree course, gave the audience an update on Parcoursup and Administrative Registrations for the start of the 2019 academic year:

• Reminder of capacity: Curie portal 390 and Monod portal 680.
• Applications: around 4,800 applications (4,138 ranked vs. 2,653 in 2018) in the Curie portal, and 5,000 applications (4,486 ranked vs. 3,761 in 2018) in the Monod portal.
• The main admission phase began on May 15, 2019. The response time was 5 days until May 20, then 3 days beyond that (in 2018, the response time was 7 days). This change, combined with a high last-called rank (1,900th place for Curie, and 2,500th for Monod), meant that the first few weeks converged quickly.
• The main phase ended on July 19, 2019(September 4 in 2018). Candidates were then invited to make a final choice. Capacity has since been reached.

At the end of the main phase, withdrawals were permanently compensated for by drawing on the waiting lists. These lists were exhausted at the end of August for Curie and the beginning of September for Monod. Several dozen candidates were then recruited during the complementary phase, which ended on September 14.

Curie accepted around 200 "YES IF" students, while at Monod, due to a configuration error in Parcoursup, there were only around 30 "YES IF" students.

Human Resources: update on Missions Complémentaires d'Enseignement - MCE - (Complementary Teaching Missions)

Alain Hoffmann gave an update on the number of Missions Complémentaires d'Enseignement (MCEs) per teaching department. It was recalled that MCEs have a 64-hour service and that 4 MCEs will be involved in Scientific Culture.

Your elected representatives and Department Directors are your contacts within the Montpellier Faculty of Science. Don't hesitate to contact them.