Rector's Directive No. 9/2024 ****************************************************************************************** * ****************************************************************************************** Title Details on provision for the possibility to continue studies in an ident accreditation. To implement Sections 80 (5) and 81b (4) of Act No. 111/1998 Sb., to regulate higher Lead Office Student Affairs Department, the Rectorate Date of effect: 1st March 2024 ****************************************************************************************** * Details on provision for the possibility to continue studies in an identical or similar studying case of termination of accreditation and right to offer a programme of study unde accreditation ****************************************************************************************** *========================================================================================= * Article 1 Introductory Provision *========================================================================================= Under sections 80 (5) and 81b (4) of Act No. 111/1998 Sb., to regulate higher education in to change and amend other laws (“the Higher Education Act”), as amended, this Rector’s Dir organisational issues related to providing for the possibility to continue studies in an i similar programme of study in the same or another faculty of Charles University in the cas of accreditation of a programme of study or withdrawal of the right to offer a programme o the framework of institutional accreditation (“termination of accreditation”). *========================================================================================= * Article 2 Determination of the Successor Programme of Study *========================================================================================= 1.A faculty provides students of a programme of study whose accreditation has been termina whose study of the programme has been interrupted (“the students”) with a possibility to studies in a programme of study having identical or similar content to the programme of accreditation has been terminated (“the successor programme”). 2.The successor programme is approved by the Internal Evaluation Board of Charles Universi the same time as granting the right to offer the programme. 3.The successor programme may contain a completion-of-study curriculum. The completion-of- is, in terms of temporal and content sequence, identical to the curriculum within the pr study whose accreditation has been terminated. If the successor programme contains a com curriculum, the students are assigned to this curriculum. 4.If the Internal Evaluation Board approves two or more successor programmes, the Dean of which offered the programme whose accreditation has been terminated: a.Chooses a successor programme matching the focus of the programme whose accreditation terminated from the approved successor programmes upon consultation with the guarantor programme; or b.Determines a deadline by which the students of the study programme whose accreditation terminated must choose between two or more successor programmes: i.If a student makes a choice within the deadline given, such choice cannot be changed iiIf a student fails to make a choice within the deadline given, the successor program for the student by the Dean to match the focus of the programme whose accreditation terminated; such choice is final. 5.If it is necessary to take additional steps related to the choice of successor programme proceed by analogy under paragraph 4. *========================================================================================= * Article 3 Transfer to the Successor Programme of Study *========================================================================================= 1.The faculty decides via Dean’s Directive on the transfer of students to the successor pr 2.The Dean issues the directive usually no later than four months before the date on which accreditation is to be terminated. 3.The Dean’s Directive identifies the successor programme of study and the programme whose has been terminated, and states the date of assignment to the successor programme. If th under Article 2 (4) (b) is applied, the directive also states the deadline for choosing more successor programmes listed, and the choice of successor programme if a student fai choice within the deadline. 4.If students are transferred between faculties, the faculty offering the programme whose has been terminated and the faculty offering the successor programme agree on the detail the result of such agreement forms part of the Dean’s Directive under paragraph 1. The D is issued by the Dean of the faculty offering the programme of study whose accreditation terminated. 5.A model directive forms Appendix No. 1 to this Directive. *========================================================================================= * Article 4 Uninterrupted Study *========================================================================================= 1.For the below-listed purposes in particular, study in the programme of study whose accre been terminated and study in the successor programme is considered as a single uninterru a.Determination of the fee for longer study; b.Awarding of a scholarship for outstanding academic achievement and doctoral bursary; c.Membership in the academic community and membership in related bodies, providing it do contradict the rules for the composition of such bodies, unless the procedure under Ar concerned; d.Assessment of study of subjects (including the study requirements for which the studen and have not yet satisfied them and all attempts to pass the assessment of study of th state final examination and its parts, state doctoral examination, and defence of the e.Interruption of study and the overall period of study; f.Assignment of the topic of a bachelor’s, diploma, or dissertation thesis; g.Determination of the conditions of individual curriculum in the case of students of ba master’s programmes of study, h.Assignment of supervisor, individual curriculum and regular evaluation thereof, and su registered for and completed in the case of students of doctoral programmes of study; i.Determination of the overall period of study. 2.Such uninterrupted study will be registered in the Study Information System of Charles U single study, and the date on which the student was transferred to the successor program be recorded. The maximum period of study equals the maximum period of study in the progr longer standard period of study. *========================================================================================= * Article 5 Final Provisions *========================================================================================= 1.Rector’s Directive No. 12/2019, to provide for the possibility to continue studies in an similar programme of study is hereby repealed. 2.This Rector’s Directive comes into force on the date of its signature and becomes effect 2024. Prague, 27 February 2024 docx. for download [ URL "UKEN-2007-version1- uk_13418_version1_or___9_2024___podrobnosti_en_final_bez_prilohy.docx"] *========================================================================================= * Appendix No. 1 – Model Dean’s Directive *========================================================================================= docx. for download [ URL "UKEN-2007-version1-prilohy_anglicke.docx"]