Decree of the Ministry of Education of the Czech Socialist Republic No. 110 / 1980 Coll.

Decree of the Ministry of Education of the Czech Socialist Republic on higher education (study regulations)

Valid Effective from 01.09.1980
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DECLARATION
Ministry of Education of the Czech Socialist Republic
of 21 July 1980
on higher education (study regulations)
The Ministry of Education of the Czech Socialist Republic provides, pursuant to § 48 paragraph 3 and § 98 paragraph 1 (a), (c), (d), (e) and (f) of Act No. 39 / 1980 Coll., on Higher Education Institutions (hereinafter referred to as "the Act"):

ČÁST PRVNÍ

GENERAL PROVISIONS
§ 1
This decree applies to the proper study and extraordinary study of universities under the responsibility of the Ministry of Education of the Czech Socialist Republic ("Ministry of Education ').

ČÁST DRUHÁ

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§ 2
Organisation of sound studies
(1) Proper studies at universities are organised as:
(a) daily studies; or
(b) long-distance studies or evening studies; or
(c) the connection between daily and occupational studies.
(2) In the daily study, students take part in specific forms of teaching, which are complementary to each other through a separate study; as a rule, they are not in permanent employment, membership, employment or other employment relationships (hereinafter referred to as employment).
(3) In the study at work, students prepare themselves mainly with a separate study which complements their specific forms of education; are generally in employment. The form of long-distance or evening studies can also be studied by students who, for serious reasons, in particular health care, cannot be employed.
§ 3
Training plans
(1) The curriculum defines the content of education in the different fields of study, or in the course of studies within these fields.
(2) The curriculum shall be based on the content and objectives of educational activities, the results of scientific, research, professional or artistic activities and the needs of social practice; taking into account the appropriate academic burden on students and the principles of mental hygiene.
(3) The curriculum shall include study subjects (hereinafter referred to as "subjects') by year and semester, basic forms of teaching (Section 8 (1)) and the number of teaching hours per week or semester. The curriculum also specifies which subjects and in which yearsand semesters are prescribed credits, classed credits and examinations.
(4) The curriculum in the daily study is determined in such a way that the number of hours of lectures, exercises and seminars per week does not exceed 30 hours. The number of hours of military training, physical education and professional education are not included in the number of hours of teaching, unless physical education and professional education are part of the field of study.
(5) The curriculum in the study at work shall be determined in such a way as to enable students to study separately and prepare for teaching and examinations; the scope of teaching, including consultations in remote studies, shall be not more than 96 hours in the semester and evening studies, not more than 60% of the range of teaching specified in the daily study of the relevant study.
§ 4
Study according to individual study plan
(1) The study according to the individual study plan is organised in a daily study or in a study at work.
(2) In the study according to the individual study plan, the student or group of students who fulfil the conditions for such study shall be determined, while maintaining the content and scope of the study set out in the curriculum of the relevant study field and the duration of the study (Section 34 (1) of the Act), or, for the purpose of deepening knowledge and skills, the content and scope of the study set out in the curriculum of the relevant study field (Section 34 (2) of the Act).
(3) The Dean may designate an individual study plan for a student or group of students at their request if:
(a) demonstrate talent or talent through excellent study results and activity; or
(b) are authors of discoveries, inventions, designs or improvements, 1); or
(c) are national sports representatives or members of centres of peak sport; or
(d) participate in international art competitions; or
(e) they may not regularly participate in teaching for the fulfilment of important social functions; or
(f) provide permanent care for their own or adopted child (s) under 10 years of age or for a close person who requires personal care or for students who are pregnant; or
(g) they may not regularly take part in teaching or perform other study duties on account of long-term illness or injury; or
(h) they may not regularly participate in teaching or perform other teaching duties for other serious, particularly social and family reasons.
(4) Students who study under the individual study plan shall determine the period for which the study is permitted under the individual study plan. In addition, they shall determine the form and extent of teaching for students, the examination periods, the period of holidays so that the school year ends before 31 August and the conditions for advancing to the higher year and the terms of the upper year registration. Students studying according to an individual study plan may be reduced by up to one year or by up to two years by the Dean.
(5) If the needs of social practice so require, the Ministry of Education may, after consulting a university student or a group of students with their agreement, determine an individual study plan to extend the content and scope of the study (Section 34 (2) of the Act) to enhance knowledge and skills.
(6) The individual study plan is usually determined at the beginning of the school year.
§ 5
Interdisciplinary studies
(1) The inter-branch study is organised in a day-to-day study or in a study at work.
(2) In interdisciplinary studies, students outside the subjects of the field of study at which they were admitted ("the main field ') may also study certain subjects of other fields of study, in combination with a specific curriculum set by the Ministry of Education.
(3) Inter-disciplinary studies are set up with the approval of the Ministry of Education and are announced by the Dean of the Faculty at which the main course is studied; the Dean shall also determine the terms of this study.
(4) Students wishing to study in interdisciplinary studies will ask the Dean of the Faculty at which they study the main field of study for inclusion in this study.
(5) The registration and control of students of interdisciplinary studies are carried out by the Dean of the Faculty at which students study the main field. This faculty will announce to the faculty or university at which they will study in interdisciplinary studies, the list of subjects to be studied at it, and the list of students enrolled. These faculties or universities shall report the results of the examination to the faculty in which the main course is studied; the results of the study inspection (§ 12) are recorded by examiners of these faculties or universities in the study report.
§ 6
Minutes
(1) By enrolment in the relevant year of study, students receive the right to participate in all forms of education, to receive credits and classified credits and to take examinations. The minutes shall take place at the dates laid down by the Dean and shall be marked by students in the study report. The entry of students and the check of the accuracy of the articles they have registered shall be carried out by the Dean.
(2) Students enter subjects in the study report according to the curriculum of the relevant field of study, year and form.
(3) Students who study according to the individual study plan record the subjects as intended for the year concerned.
(4) Students may also write down optional subjects defined by the curriculum of the relevant field of study.
(5) Paragraph 19 provides for closer conditions for entry in the senior year.
§ 7
Organisation of the school year
(1) The school year is divided into winter semester, summer semester and period of main holidays. The beginning of teaching and the beginning of major vacations are determined by the Ministry of Education.
(2) The time plan of the school year shall be determined by the Dean, if the teaching of the study is provided in several faculties, he shall determine the timetable of the Dean of these faculties in a uniform manner.
(3) There are 15 teaching weeks in each semester of daily study followed by a six-week period for examinations and one week of holidays in the winter semester and a five-week period for examinations in the summer semester ("the trial period '). The main holiday lasts eight weeks. During the main holidays can be held the final military concentration, compulsory physical training courses, professional practice and social policy practice, as determined by the curriculum, and the socially beneficial work of students. The free time of students during the main holidays shall not be reduced to less than four continuous weeks. The Rector may adjust the time distribution and number of teaching weeks of the final year of study differently.
(4) The remaining two weeks of the school year will be determined by the Dean for professional or social practice, excursions, etc.
(5) The Dean will determine the organisation of the school year for study at work.
Educational activity and its organisation
§ 8
(1) The basic forms of teaching in daily studies are lectures, seminars, exercises, excursions, professional practice and social policy practice (practice). In remote studies, separate studies shall be supplemented by consultations or other appropriate teaching methods. Political training with students is part of the different forms of teaching.
(2) In the evening study, teaching is concentrated within a few days of the week, usually until evening hours. If the number of students in one year in the evening study falls below 20, the Dean cancels this form of study and allows students to transfer to the long-distance study or to the daily study.
(3) Students are lectured by professors and professors of the relevant field of study and, with the agreement of the Dean, by experts. The lectures can also be held by important experts from scientific centres and social practice. The content of the lectures corresponds to the content of education in the various fields of study, which is given in the individual curriculum and curriculum.
(4) Seminars are led by professors, lecturees, assistants and experts from scientific institutes or social practice. At the seminars, with the active participation of students in theory and methodology, the part of the subject is developed and deepened and new scientific findings are interpreted.
(5) Trainings are led by professors, lecturees, assistants and teachers of the relevant field of study and experts from scientific centres or social practice. Trainings may also be attended by assistants under the direction of other teachers. In the exercises, with the active participation of students, the lectured part of the subject is applied to practical examples, the knowledge, skills and habits of the students required for practical and theoretical mastery of the subject are trained and strengthened by the student knowledge.
(6) Excursions are mainly used to verify the theoretical knowledge acquired by teaching certain subjects and to familiarise themselves with the methods of work in organisations.
(7) Professional practice serves to consolidate the knowledge and skills acquired by the study and to acquire new knowledge and skills based on the knowledge of the work of the institutions and organisations in which students practice, and to develop applied working habits and progressive methods of work.
(8) Social policy practice is intended to prepare students for active public, political, political and cultural activities which they will undertake after graduation.
(9) Consultations help students study independently. In consultation, students are directed at the content and methods of study, methods of scientific research, professional, artistic and other activities. Some forms and parts of teaching may also be replaced by consultations or the preparation of students for examinations.
(10) The participation of students in individual forms of education is compulsory to the extent specified in the curriculum. The Dean may determine that the participation of students in lectures from certain subjects and in some years is not compulsory.
(11) A student who, for serious reasons, has not been able to attend the course may fulfil his / her teaching duties in a manner specified by the head of the department concerned.
(12) A student who misses a substantial part of the compulsory education provided for in the curriculum without serious reasons did not fulfil the conditions for enrolment.
§ 9
With a separate study, students prepare to master the study in the prescribed scope and content from the lectures, from compulsory and recommended literature, using the results of their own experiments and experiments, using the study information centres, solving practice tasks, solving assigned tasks etc.
§ 10
(1) The Head of the Department shall draw up, according to the timetable of the school year, programmes for educational activities by semester and year.
(2) The programmes for educational activities include in particular:
(a) the timetable for teaching according to the curriculum;
(b) the subject matter of the written works and the dates of their award and termination;
(c) the timetable for the follow-up of studies carried out at seminars and exercises;
(d) a plan of consultation of teachers and individual forms of teacher work with students;
(e) test requirements and conditions for the award of credits and classified credits.
§ 11
Senior Teacher of the Year and Senior Teacher of the Study Group
(1) For each year, the Dean shall designate the senior teacher of the year from professors, teachers or professional assistants. The Dean may, taking into account the number of students, divide the year into sections and appoint a senior teacher for each part. The Dean may, in exceptional cases, entrust the position of the senior teacher of the year to the senior teacher of the study group.
(2) The senior teacher of the year shall coordinate the scope of the tasks and audit work of the students in their separate studies and shall operate on their uniform and proportionate distribution during the semester or school year.
(3) Individual years are divided into study groups. The dean determines how to divide students into study groups. Study group takes part together in exercises, seminars, practice etc.
(4) For each study group, the Dean of the teachers shall designate a senior teacher of the study group whose main task is to coordinate educational activities in the study group.
(5) For each study group, the Dean shall designate a group leader from among the students of the relevant study group on a proposal from the Socialist Youth Association. The Head of the Group shall ensure that the members of the Study Group perform their study duties and increase their professional, political and cultural level.
Study control
§ 12
(1) The main forms of study control are continuous examination, calculation, classification of credit and examination.
(2) In the subject in which the calculation is prescribed by the curriculum, obtaining it is a condition for the examination of the subject.
§ 13
(1) The continuous examination of the study shall monitor the acquisition of knowledge acquired by all forms of teaching and, in a separate study, the level of work commissioned.
(2) Continuous control of studies shall be carried out by teachers, in particular through control issues, tests, the award of study tasks, written work and evaluation.
§ 14
Calculation and classification
(1) The credit is granted for compliance with the requirements laid down in the educational programme for the subject concerned and for participation in the teaching.
(2) The classification of project, graphic and design work, practical exercises, artistic performance or work of art in subjects in which tests are not carried out shall be evaluated by classification. The classification of credit is evaluated by "excellent '(1)," very good' (2), "good '(3) and" failed' (4).
(3) The credit and the classed credit are granted by the teacher who teaches the subject.
(4) The requirements for the award of the credit and the classification of the credit, including the timing of the tasks to be assigned and the follow-up of the studies, shall be notified to the students by the teacher teaching the subject at the beginning of the semester.
(5) The teacher shall indicate the credit and the classified credit in the study report. The classed credit shall indicate the marks referred to in paragraph 2. It does not include the "failed" mark in the study report. The awarded and non-awarded credits and classified credits shall be indicated by the teacher in the statement of credits and tests conducted on the Dean.
(6) A student who has not been awarded a credit or who has been evaluated by the mark "failed" in the classification of credit may be permitted by the teacher to fulfil the conditions for obtaining the credit or the classification of the credit at the alternate date, but not later than the date of the test set out for the subject or by the end of the test period, with the exception laid down in Paragraph 19 (2).
(7) A student who has not been practised and has not been awarded credit may be authorised by the Dean to conduct the practice within an alternate period (§ 17 (2)).
(8) A student who has not received a credit or has failed to comply with the conditions for entering a higher grade for a classified credit, even within an alternate term.
§ 15
Tests
(1) The examinations examine the student's knowledge of the subject and his ability to apply creatively theoretical knowledge in the assessment of practical phenomena. Drawing up questions for testing will ensure that the head of the department is provided before the trial period.
(2) The tests are:
(a) oral; or
(b) written and oral; or
(c) practical and oral.
(3) The oral examination shall determine the quality, extent and depth of the knowledge acquired by the student and its ability to solve the tasks set out separately and creatively. In the written and oral examination, the student solves the written tasks; the resolution of written tasks shall be supplemented by an oral examination. Practical and oral tests shall address practical tasks; the solution of practical tasks shall be supplemented by an oral examination.
(4) In the universities of artistic direction, the examination of the basic subject of artistic processing is the subject of a given subject, subject or performance.
(5) Examinations and corrective examinations (Section 16) are carried out by the students, as a general rule, at the professors and lecturees who lectured to them; in exceptional cases, also for other teachers of the relevant field of study designated by the Head of the Department (the examiner).
(6) During the semester, the student may take examinations of up to five subjects. This number does not include classified credits and trials from military training and professional education, unless the professional education is part of the field of study.
(7) The tests shall take place in the test period, unless otherwise provided for in this Decree.
(8) The Head of the Department, after consulting the senior teacher and the representative of the Socialist Youth Organisation, shall determine the dates for taking examinations from each subject in sufficient numbers and in advance to enable students to apply for the examination at least two weeks before the start of the trial period. If the student does not submit to the test within two weeks before the start of the test period, the examiner shall determine the date of the test.
(9) The student may be authorised by the examiner, taking into account the results of the ongoing examination of the examination before completion of the course in the relevant semester.
(10) The student shall take an examination for one examiner and on one day except for practical and oral examinations [paragraph 2 (c)]. The oral examination shall not take more than 30 minutes.
(11) The test result is classified by the examiner only by the following marks: "excellent '(1)," very good' (2), "good '(3)," failed' (4). The classification shall also take into account the results of the ongoing study control.
(12) The test result shall be marked by the examiner in the study statement and shall include the date and signature; the mark "failed 'shall not be entered in the study report. The results of all tests, including the" failed' mark, shall be indicated by the examiner in the statement of credits and tests conducted on the Dean.
(13) If the student is unable to attend the exam within the specified time limit, he must apologize in advance to the examiner who will give him a replacement date. For serious reasons, in particular health reasons, a student may make an additional apology no later than five days after the deadline for the examination. The examiner shall decide on the reasons for the apology. If the student did not show up for the exam and did not excuse his absence or if he resigned from the exam, he shall evaluate "failed."
(14) If the student did not pass the winter semester examination in the examination period of this semester and his absence was excused by the examiner, he may, with the Dean's consent, take it up within one month of the beginning of the summer semester.
(15) At the request of a student, the Dean may determine the conduct of the examination or repair examination (§ 16) before the commission he appoints.
(16) The state final examination or the state rigorous examination of students shall normally take place in one day; Depending on the nature of the field of study and the subjects from which the examination takes place, it may be held if provided for in the curriculum and on more than one day. The final test of all parts should not last more than two and a half hours. National final examinations and national rigorous examinations of students are subject to specific regulation.2)
§ 16
Corrective tests
(1) If the student failed the examination, the examiner shall determine the date of the first repair examination. If the student failed the first repair test, the examiner shall determine the date of the second repair test.
(2) If the student failed the second repair test, the Dean may, at the student's request, authorise the third repair exam. In the school year, the Dean may authorise a third repair test of up to two subjects. The dates of such tests shall be determined by the examiner.
(3) Corrective examinations from the subjects for the winter semester may be held in the examination period of the winter semester, no later than one month after the beginning of the summer semester. If the student has not completed the examinations (repair tests) of up to two subjects per winter semester, he may perform them in the summer semester test period. Corrective examinations from the summer semester may be held during the summer semester test period.
(4) A student who has not completed a maximum of two examinations by the end of the school year (corrective examinations) may, with the approval of the Dean, carry them out no later than one month after the beginning of teaching in the following school year.
(5) A student who, by the end of the school year, has not completed all the examinations provided for in the curriculum for the previous year and who has not been authorised to carry out the examinations (corrective examinations) referred to in paragraphs 2 and 4 has not complied with the conditions for entering a higher grade.
(6) Tests and corrective examinations in the study at work shall be held for the winter semester by 30 September of the same calendar year and for the summer semester by 31 January of the following year.
§ 17
(1) A student who has carried out a practice shall be recognised by a teacher appointed by the Head of the Department of Practice and shall be credited.
(2) A student who, for serious, particularly health reasons, has not been practised and has not been awarded credit, may, at his request, allow the Dean to conduct the practice on a replacement date. If the practice cannot be carried out within an alternate period, the Dean shall specify another way of fulfilling this obligation.
(3) Practice is permitted in the school year in which the practice was to take place. If the practice does not prevent the performance of other teaching duties within the alternate period, the course may be allowed in the following school year.
(4) A student who has not completed a practice and who has not been given a replacement term for a practice in the following school year or any other way of fulfilling this obligation has failed to fulfil the conditions for enrolment.
§ 18
Paragraph 17 also applies to compulsory physical training courses defined by the curriculum.

ČÁST TŘETÍ

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§ 19
Entry into senior year
(1) A student who has completed all the teaching duties laid down in the curriculum by 31 August is enrolled in the senior year.
(2) A student to whom the Dean has authorised examinations (repair examinations) of not more than two subjects, or to obtain no more than two credits or no more than two classified credits for one month after the beginning of the course, or to whom he has authorised the practice or compulsory physical training at the alternate date, may be enrolled in a higher grade. After obtaining credits, carrying out tests, practice or compulsory physical training, the cross-compliance of the registration shall be cancelled.
(3) A student who can take the summer semester examinations by 31 January of the following year may be enrolled on a conditional basis in a higher year.
(4) A student who has been conditionally enrolled in a senior year fulfils all the study duties of the year in which he was enrolled.
§ 20
Repeating of the year
(1) A student who has not fulfilled the conditions for entering a senior year may, at his request, be permitted to repeat the year. During the course of study, the student can be allowed to repeat only two years. The second repetition of the same year and the second repetition of the two years in the first three years of study are not allowed.
(2) When repeating a year, the student rerecords items from which he has failed to comply or from which he has not been awarded a credit or a classified credit or from which he has been evaluated by a "good 'mark for the examination or a classified credit. In these subjects, the student is obliged to attend teaching.
(3) At the request of a student, the Dean may allow a repeated examination only once and not more than two subjects.
Discontinuation
§ 21
(1) At the request of a student, the Dean may decide, for serious personal reasons, in particular health reasons, that the student is to be suspended. At the same time, the Dean will determine the beginning and the end of the study interruption. The study may be interrupted for a maximum period of two years; the suspension of study in the year which the student repeats is not included in this period.
(2) The Dean may suspend his own-initiative studies to a student against whom a criminal prosecution has been initiated (Paragraph 34 (6)), until the end of that prosecution, for a maximum period of two years.
(3) The study interruption shall be recorded in the study statement. At the end of the period of study, the student is usually enrolled in the year in which he was suspended. Classification in the year may be subject to the performance of differences tests. If the reasons for the study interruption are omitted, the Dean may, at the request of the student, terminate the study interruption even before the end of the period.
(4) For the duration of the study, the student does not have the rights and duties of the student.
§ 22
A student who has not completed three or more examinations (repair examinations) of the subjects provided for in the winter semester curriculum within one month of the beginning of the summer semester, the Dean may, on his own initiative, suspend his studies until the beginning of the next school year and at the same time allow the year to be repeated.
§ 23
Leaving the study
(1) A student intending to leave his studies shall notify the Dean in writing.
(2) A student who has not registered in the relevant year within the deadline and has not apologized within five days of the expiry of the deadline shall be considered as leaving the studies.
§ 24
Evidence of failure to complete studies
A student who has not completed his studies for the reasons set out in Section 38 (5) of the Act shall be given a certificate by the Dean of successful examinations, indicating that the student has not completed his studies.
§ 25
Transfers
(1) A student may be permitted to transfer
(a) a relative in the same faculty or university; or
(b) the same or related field of study of another faculty or university; or
(c) to another form of proper study of the same field of study.
(2) A student can only be allowed to transfer to a relative after the completion of the first year of study.
(3) A student may also be authorised to transfer from universities in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic which are not managed by the Ministry of Education or from foreign universities.
(4) The Dean allows the student to go to the same school. The transfer to another faculty is permitted by the Dean of the Faculty, to which the student wants to transfer after the Dean of the Faculty, to which the student studies. The Dean may provide for the student to perform the differences tests if he has not carried out all the tests set out in the curriculum in the relevant field of study and the deadlines for their execution.
(5) The transfer of a student from a foreign university to a Czechoslovak university and the transfer of a foreign student to a Czechoslovak university is permitted by the Dean of the Faculty, to which the student wishes to transfer after prior approval of the Ministry of Education. The university to which the student has transferred shall decide on the nostalgia of the examinations carried out by the student at the foreign university. On the basis of nodrification, the Dean will include the student in the relevant year and set him a deadline for carrying out the examinations specified in the curriculum which the student did not perform.
§ 26
Calculation of tests
A student who has completed his or her studies at a university or who has already studied at a university and has been re-admitted to university may be authorised by the Dean to take account of the examinations carried out, taking into account the benefits and times that have elapsed since their completion; on the basis of this calculation, it shall decide to include the student in the relevant year. Tests may be counted unless more than five years have elapsed since he stopped being a student.

ČÁST ČTVRTÁ

RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF STUDENTS
§ 27
Student rights
In particular, students shall have the following rights:
(a) free use of laboratories, cabinets, audiences, reading rooms, libraries, computer centres and other teaching and teaching facilities, physical facilities and professional facilities of the university as planned for use of such facilities;
(b) to participate in the scientific, research and artistic activities of a university according to its capacity;
(c) participate, through the Socialist Youth Association, in the management of educational activities and in the improvement of teaching, political and social work, influence the improvement of academic discipline, the award of scholarships, the accommodation of students in colleges, the catering of students in menus, the handling of all issues related to the life and work of students and the expression of the level of lectures, exercises and seminars.

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CitationDecree of the Ministry of Education of the Czech Socialist Republic No. 110 / 1980 Coll., on study at universities (study regulations)
Regulation Type-
Author-
CollectionCode of Laws
Date of Promulgation25.08.1980
Effective from01.09.1980
Effective until-
Status Valid
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