Yüksək Təhsil İnstitutu

Management Board




Institute of Higher Education (IHE)

Duties of the Management Board of the Institute of Higher Education (IHE):

• To determine the strategic directions of IHE and prepare medium and long-term strategic development plans of IHE covering five and ten years;

• To approve the annual action plans of the IHE, accepted by the Scientific Council of the IHE and approved by the director of the IHE;

The Board of Directors operates on a public basis.

Rights of the Board of Directors are as follows:

• Establish partnership relations with industrial enterprises on behalf of IHE;

• To report directly to the Scientific Council and the Rector of AzTU concerning the annual activity of IHE. 

The Management Board includes:

• The composition of the Management Board consists of 10 members and a chairman;

• 5 members are determined from AzTU, 6 members from industrial enterprises;

• Members from AzTU are appointed by order of AzTU rector. One of them is appointed as the Chairman of the Management Board according to the order of the Rector.

• 6 members representing industrial enterprises are formed from the representatives presented by AzTU rector, and vice-rector for Educational Affairs in his absence on the basis of an official letter to large local and foreign enterprises operating in the Republic of Azerbaijan. Only 1 representative can represent each enterprise.

• All members of the Management Board are appointed for a term of 1 year and they are appointed by AzTU and nominated by industrial enterprises every year.

• Industrial enterprises can present the same person to the membership of the Board of Directors an unlimited number of times.

• The same member from AzTU including the Chairman of the Management Board cannot be appointed more than twice. 

Requirements for members of the Board of Directors:

• Members from industrial enterprises - The potential candidate should be the head of the strategic development department of the enterprise, a member of the Board of Directors, the Deputy Executive Director and such a person involved in making strategic and management decisions of the enterprise.

• Requirements for members appointed by AzTU:

At least a Ph.D;

At least 1 (one) year of scientific and pedagogical experience;

At least 1 (one) year of administrative management experience at AzTU - dean, deputy dean, chairman, head of department, deputy head of department, director of the institute, adviser to the rector, vice-rector.

Preference will be given to those with experience in public and private enterprises. 

Chairman of the Board dss. (The Doctor of Social Science) F.O. Mammadov. 

(fariz.mammadov@aztu.edu.az).