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Credit accumulation system

Information session

Faculty of Social Sciences

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Credit acummulation system

• New way of structuring and organising the academic offering

• Deliberations concerning one programme year will cease • New tolerance regulation• Early examination schedule • Monitoring of Study Progress• Clear information concerning the level of their individual

results

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New way of structuring and organising the

academic offering

• Students enrolling for the first time

• Students who are further advanced

• New in 2010-2011

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One deliberation

• Only one deliberation at the end of the programme

• No longer annually for one programme year

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A new tolerance system

• Tolerances are possible

• Students decide themselves

• Maximum 10% of the number of study points in the programme

• The cumulative studye efficiency must be at least 50%

• Only for minor deficits

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A new tolerance system - recommendations

• Tolerable results obtained in January or June

• Tolerable results obtained in September

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Examination schedules

Earlier examination schedules from 2010-2011

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Monitoring of study progress

Measures concerning the monitoring of study progress and limiting the period of study

• No passing result or tolerance

• Binding study advice

• Regulations for second, third and fourth registrations

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Study itinerary guidance

Structured, personal and collective study itinerary guidance

• Structurally• Collective and individual guidance• Reports of the eaxmination results

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More information?

• http://www.kuleuven.be/onderwijs/engelstaligestudenten/creditaccumulationsystem/index.html

• http://www.kuleuven.be/learningaccount/