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European
Credits Transfer Systems (ECTS)
ECTS is a European
system for transferring academic credits
What can ECTS
offer students
What does ECTS
offer higher education establishments?
ECTS Credits
ECTS
Guide
ECTS
is a European system for transferring academic credits
To help
students make the most of their study trips abroad, the Commission of
the European Communities has created a common language for the recognition
of academic awards, a system of academic credit transfers, which allows
for the gauging and comparison of academic results and their transfer
between the different centres belonging to this exchange programme. To
do so, it:
- Provides greater
access to information about study schemes abroad.
- Provides common
procedures for the recognition of academic awards.
What
can ECTS offer Students?
- It ensures the
recognition of awards for studies.
- It allows access
to the various courses together with the students from the host country
as well as active participation in university life.
- It allows continuation
of studies abroad. After their study trip abroad, a student may not
wish to return to their original college, but stay in the host college
or even study in another college. These decisions, though, may not be
taken without the approval of the colleges in question, which have the
sole competence to establish the conditions the student must meet to
transfer their enrolment and/or be awarded an academic qualification.
What
does ECTS offer higher education establishments?
- ECTS provides detailed
information about the courses taught at each college and their relative
value within a specific syllabus.
- ECTS makes decision-making
for tutors easier in terms of academic recognition. In fact, the content
of the syllabus abroad for each student should be the result of a prior
agreement between the student and both the host and the origin colleges.
- ECTS can also be
the catalyst for reflection on teaching structures, volume of work and
students' academic results.
- ECTS maintains
the autonomy and responsibility of higher education establishments in
all decisions relating to students' results without modifying existing
teaching structures or evaluation methods: ECTS students attend the
same courses and take the same examinations as students from the host
centre..
ECTS
Credits
ECTS
credits represent the volume of work a student should devote to each subject
in relation to the overall volume of work required to pass a complete
university course in the college in the form of a value assigned to each
course: master classes, practical work, seminars, personal work and examinations
or other forms of evaluation.
- Within the framework
of ECTS, 60 credits represent the volume of work of one year's studies;
in general terms, 30 credits are equivalent to one semester and 20 credits
to one term.
- ECTS credits may
be allocated to practical short courses and final projects provided
they are a part of the official course syllabus, both in the college
of origin and the host college.
- ECTS credits allocated
to courses will be awarded to those students who pass those courses
by passing either the examination or the relevant evaluation method.
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More
Information:
http://europa.eu.int/comm/education/index_en.html
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