On the 31st August 2012 the MTF STU finished these study programs:
- Teaching practical courses in technical fields (Bc. degree)
- Teaching technical vocational subjects (Ing. degree)
- Methodology of technical vocational subjects (PhD level).
Pedagogical training of technical intelligence was unique in the environment of university technical education in Slovakia. The workplace (department and later Institute) had accredited study programs at all three levels of study and during its existence it educated hundreds of educated graduates. The study was of special interest for the students. In the comprehensive accreditation in 2009, the Accreditation Committee of the Government of the Slovak Republic accepted a Professor, from a technical field, as a supervisor. They also accepted associate professors from the fields of pedagogy and psychology as co-supervisors. From the accreditation committee in 2011, we learnt that the requirement that is needed to be a supervisor is to be a professor from pedagogy or psychology. Our faculty does not have and has not had that kind of professor. During approximately a one year period, the management of the faculty tried to solve these problems with a large effort. The management of the faculty discussed this problem with the accreditation committee and they also addressed several potential supervisors from other institutions. Despite this effort, the educational curricula, from the MTF STU, failed to ensure adequate Supervisors. Teaching practical courses in technical fields (BCs degree) Teaching of technical vocational subjects (Ing. degree) and vocational subjects (PhD level), thus revealing that the MTF STU finished study programs. During accreditation almost all students of successfully finished programs concluded their study.Three bachelor Students and ten PhD. students will complete their study at PF UKF in Nitra.The MTF thus marks the end of an important chapter in its history of engineering pedagogy, in the frame of European research, that was pioneered by Professor Dušan Driensky in the late sixties and early seventies at the Rectorate’s workplace of the SVST. To this day, the STU and MTF STU have had a significant presence in the global professional organizations regarding engineering pedagogy - IGIP and SEFI. It is a sobering thought to think that there is no hope for the future reconstruction of pedagogical or research activities in this field at our technical university or faculty. As Dean, I would like to thank our former employees of the Institute of Engineering Pedagogy and Humanities and later the Department of Engineering Pedagogy, for their smooth management of critical situations that were part of the last period of finishing the accreditation of study programs.
Translation: Anthony James Ronald Atkinson
