Special Rules of Study at Charles University ****************************************************************************************** * ****************************************************************************************** Under sections 9 (1) (b) and 17 (1) (g) of Act No. 111/1998 Sb., to regulate higher educat and to change and amend other laws (the Higher Education Act), as amended, the Academic Se Charles University has adopted the following Special Rules for Study at Charles University regulation of the University: ****************************************************************************************** * Article 1 Scope of regulation ****************************************************************************************** The regulation is to govern special rules for study in the academic year 2019/2020 in rela national emergency declared by the Government of the Czech Republic on 12 March 2020 as a coronavirus epidemic and special measures adopted by the Government and ministries of the ****************************************************************************************** * Article 2 Teaching ****************************************************************************************** 1.Teaching within programmes of study can be implemented in distance form irrespective of teaching stipulated in the approved accreditation documents of the respective programmes of study (“programme of study”) or set by the resolution of the Internal Evaluation Boar University regarding the implementation of the programme of study within the institution system. 2.The Dean or Director of a respective University unit may order that teaching in life-lon courses may be carried out in distance form irrespective of the original form of the res ****************************************************************************************** * Article 3 Forms of assessment of study ****************************************************************************************** 1.The forms of assessment of study of an individual subject may be implemented in distance irrespective of the form of assessment stipulated in the approved accreditation document respective programmes or set by the resolution of the Internal Evaluation Board regardin implementation of the programme of study within the institutional accreditation system a of whether such possibility is missing in the Rules of Study of the respective Faculty. decide whether the system of distance form of assessment should be launched in the respe the guarantor of a respective programme of study, upon agreement with the guarantor of a subject, is to decide that the respective distance form of assessment be carried out. 2.Final state examinations, state rigorosum examinations, or parts thereof, state doctoral and the defence of doctoral dissertations (“state examinations”) may be carried out in d The Dean of a respective Faculty upon agreement with the guarantor of their programme of decide whether distance form is applicable to the state examinations. 3.The period during which final state examinations may be held must be published at least in advance; exact dates must be published at least 15 days in advance. The period for fi examinations may be longer than two weeks. Where a Faculty in its Rules of Study regulat period to lapse between regular sittings and resits for final state examinations, such p least one month long. 4.The Faculty should, in a relevant way, observe the requirement of the public nature of s examinations held in distance form. 5.The Dean may, to the extent necessary, determine rules for the assessment of study of a examinations in a way different from that set in the respective internal regulation of t however, the Dean is obliged to respect students´ rights to the maximum extent possible. 6.Should it be necessary the Dean of a Faculty may allow the guarantor of a subject to cha requirements for the completion of the subject in a way different from that stipulated b and (8) of the Code of Study and Examination of Charles University (“CSECU”). ****************************************************************************************** * Article 4 Maximum period of study ****************************************************************************************** 1.Should the maximum period of study of a student under Article 4 (12) and Article 20 (2) expire between the beginning of the emergency and the end of the calendar year 2020 the of such student is extended until the end of the calendar year 2021. 2.The period between 1 March 2020 and 31 August 2020 is not included in the period of inte maximum period of study of individuals who have their study interrupted. ****************************************************************************************** * Article 5 Details relating to the rules of study at individual faculties ****************************************************************************************** Details to implement Articles 2 and 3 are to be determined by respective Deans. ****************************************************************************************** * Article 6 Final provisions ****************************************************************************************** 1.These Rules were adopted by the Academic Senate of Charles University on April 4, 2020. 2.These Rules come into force on the date of registration thereof by the Ministry of Educa Sports. 3.These Rules become operative on the date of force thereof. Prof. Ing. František Zahálka, Ph.D. Prof. MUDr. Tomáš Zima, DrSc. President of the Academic Senate Rector Section 36 of the Higher Education Act. Registration was done on April 24, 2020.