Decree of the Ministry of Education and Culture No. 25 / 1966 Coll.
Decree of the Ministry of Education and Culture to be issued by higher education regulations
Valid
Effective from 01.05.1966
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DECLARATION
Ministry of Education and Culture
of 27 April 1966
on the issue of university study regulations
The Ministry of Education and Culture provides, pursuant to § 19 paragraph 1 of Act No. 19 / 1966 Coll., on Higher Education:
Basic provisions
These regulations apply to all forms of study which are regular and to extraordinary at universities in the field of the Ministry of Education and Culture and to all students who study at those schools, irrespective of their nationality.
Proper study
Forms of study
(1) Proper study is a basic type of study at universities; provide full university education in the relevant field of study. It takes the form of a daily study or forms of study at work (evening, long distance and external) or an effective combination of these forms. Entitlements to the level of knowledge of students are the same in all these forms.
(2) Daily study is a form of study in which the student is generally not in permanent employment and his main occupation is study.
(3) Evening study is a form of study in which teaching is concentrated within a few days of the week generally in the evening.
(4) Long-term study is a form of study in which independent study according to prescribed literature is managed and supplemented by regular consultations or centres.
(5) External study is a form of study in which a student prepares himself for examinations according to an individual or group curriculum.
School year timetable
(1) In all universities and faculties, the school year begins on 1 October and ends on 30 September; is divided into winter and summer semesters.
(2) In each semester there are 15 teaching weeks, followed by a 4-week period in which it is not taught and which is mainly intended for independent study. The fixed number of teaching weeks shall not apply to the last semester of the study, which may be adjusted in a differentiated manner by the curriculum.
(3) The main holidays are 8 weeks, the holidays during the school year are up to 3 weeks. At the time of holidays, only military concentration and some physical courses can be held, or student concentration at work.
(4) The remaining 3 weeks of the year are used according to the Dean's disposition for professional practice, excursions, exams, etc.
(5) The Dean provides for a more detailed adjustment of the school year timetable.
(6) The number of weekly classes of lectures, seminars and exercises in daily studies is up to 30 hours. This number does not include hours devoted to military training, physical education and language teaching, unless they form an organic part of the field of study.
Admission to study
The admission of students to higher education is governed by specific directives.
Minutes
(1) The applicant for university studies becomes a university student by enrollment at the faculty after his admission to university; the registration shall be indicated in the study statement. A student can only be enrolled at one faculty or university which is not divided into faculties; in two faculties or universities, the student may exceptionally be enrolled with the agreement of the Dean of both faculties.
(2) The public expression of the admission of students and the acquisition of the rights of a student at the beginning of a university is the matriculation of enrolled students.
(3) At the beginning of each next school year, the student is enrolled in the relevant year.
(4) The student writes in the study report all subjects set out in the curriculum of the relevant field of study by year.
(5) In addition to the subjects referred to in paragraph 4 which are compulsory, a student may register additional optional subjects according to his or her interest.
Study Character
(1) The main feature of university studies is autonomy and consistency.
(2) The main component of the study is participation in teaching in all forms prescribed by the curriculum, further study from textbooks, manuals and teaching texts, and from professional publications from domestic and foreign, or other practical participation in the work of the department.
Teaching methods
(1) The university provides conditions for successful independent study of lectures, seminars, exercises, consultations, professional practices and excursions or other forms.
(2) The participation of students in seminars and exercises, professional experience and excursions is compulsory and checked.
(3) The Dean may, with the approval of the Rector, provide for compulsory participation of students in certain lectures.
(4) The teacher may allow a student who, for serious reasons, was unable to attend the teaching referred to in paragraph 2 to provide a replacement course.
(5) Where a student misses a substantial part of the teaching referred to in paragraph 2 and cannot be replaced, he may be allowed to repeat the year under Paragraph 16 at his request.
(6) Depending on the nature of the study or other aspects, the Dean can divide students into study groups.
Preparation of extremely gifted students for scientific work
The preparation of extremely gifted students for scientific work is governed by specific directives.
Senior Teacher of the Year
The Dean may, if necessary, entrust one of the teachers with the teaching and organisational management of the year (senior teacher of the year) and define its tasks.
Study control
(1) The main methods of monitoring the study are:
(a) on-going examination of studies
(b) credit
(c) classified credit
(d) test.
(2) The subjects in which credits, classifications and tests are required shall be defined in the curriculum.
(3) The result of the classified credit and test is classified as follows:
1. excellent.
2. very good
3. Good
4. failed
(4) The credit and result of the classified credit and test shall be indicated by the examiner in the study report, including the date and signature. Non-profit is not included in the study report. The results of all examinations shall be recorded in the faculty's record of the Dean.
Continuous study control
In particular, teachers shall carry out continuous control of the study in seminars, exercises, professional practice and excursions, or the award of domestic work.
Credit, classified credit
(1) In addition, the teacher confirms that the student has fulfilled the requirements of continuous control within the subject concerned and has participated in the teaching referred to in § 7 (2).
(2) The teacher assesses by a classed credit how the student has proven his skills and has completed his duties in some practical exercises, or in professional practice, especially in laboratories, drawing rooms, clinics, studios, etc.
(3) In the case of an article for which, according to the curriculum, credit is required, the acquisition of the credit is a condition for carrying out the examination of that article; the exemption may be authorised by the examiner (§ 13 (3)).
Tests
(1) Tests may be oral or written or oral or written or practical.
(2) A maximum of five tests are allowed during the semester; tests from military preparation and languages, unless they form an organic part of the teaching, shall not be included in this number.
(3) According to the Dean's instructions, the examiners set trial dates so that students can choose between several dates. Students are allowed to take examinations before the end of the course.
(4) Preparation for examinations during the period of teaching does not excuse a student from not participating in the teaching referred to in § 7 (2).
(5) If the student cannot attend the test at the chosen time, he must apologize in advance to the examiner who will determine the replacement time. If the student fails to pass the test without a serious reason, this has the same consequences as if he did not benefit from the test; the reasons for the apology shall be decided by the examiner. The same consequences for withdrawal from the exam.
(6) The Dean may allow students to study properly before taking examinations even from higher education, so that especially gifted students can finish their studies at short notice. Where necessary, an additional registration of the subject shall be made.
(7) In the cases provided for in the curriculum or in exceptional, particularly justified cases, by decision of the Dean or, where appropriate, at the request of a student, the examination shall take place before a commission.
(8) Specific Directives apply to national final examinations.
Corrective tests
(1) If the student did not benefit from the test, the examiner shall determine the date of the first repair test.
(2) The second repair test may be authorised by the examiner; If they do not allow it, the Dean may allow it at the request of the student.
(3) The third correction test may, in exceptional cases, be authorised by the Dean at the request of the student.
(4) The Dean's decision under paragraphs 2 and 3 shall be final.
Senior year procedure
(1) Only a student who has completed all the study obligations laid down in the previous year's curriculum by 30 September may be enrolled in the upper year.
(2) A student who, on 30 September, lacks a maximum of 2 of the prescribed tests may be authorised by the Dean to make a conditional entry, setting out the dates of the tests, so that they are carried out by 30 November at the latest; Similarly, conditional registration may be allowed to a student who lacks credit or classified credit.
Repeating of the year
(1) A student who has not fulfilled the conditions for advancing to the senior year may be permitted to repeat the year. Only two years may be repeated during the study. The second repetition of the same year and the second repetition of the two years during the first three years of study is inadmissible.
(2) When a student repeats a year, the student only records those subjects and only repeats those examinations and exercises completed by a classified credit at which he did not benefit or in which he achieved the classification grade well. Rehabilitation in a repeated year may be permitted only by the Dean, only in exceptional cases; His decision is final.
Discontinuation
(1) The Dean may, for serious reasons, suspend the student's studies for a maximum period of two years for personal reasons, in particular health.
(2) The study interruption shall be recorded in the study statement. At the end of the period of suspension, the student is enrolled in the year in which the study was suspended. Any differences in the curriculum shall be offset by carrying out specific tests; Such tests shall be determined and the dates for their execution shall be determined by the Dean.
Leaving the study
(1) A student intending to leave his studies shall notify the Dean in writing.
(2) If the student does not arrive within the prescribed time limit without sufficient excuse to register in the relevant year, he shall be deemed to have left his studies; the reasons for the apology are decided by the Dean.
(3) The Dean will issue a certificate of successful examinations to the student who left his studies if he so requests.
Exclusion from the studio for adversity
(1) A student who has not fulfilled the conditions for advancing to a senior year and who has not been permitted to repeat the year shall be excluded from the study by the Dean for the benefit of the student.
(2) The Dean shall issue a certificate of successful examinations to a student who has been excluded from the study for the benefit of his or her request.
Transfers
(1) In duly justified cases, a student may be permitted to switch to the
(a) to another field of study of the same faculty or university;
(b) the same or related field of another faculty or university;
(c) from one form of regular study to another.
(2) The transfer within the same faculty is permitted by the Dean, the transfer to another faculty is permitted by the Dean of the Faculty at which the student intends to transfer in agreement with the Dean of the Faculty at which the student is still studying.
(3) The second sentence of Paragraph 21 and Paragraph 17 (2) of the third sentence shall apply mutatis mutandis to the offsetting of the examinations to date and to the special tests to compensate for differences in the curriculum.
New admission to university after leaving the study or leaving the study
A student who has left the study or was excluded from the study may be readmitted to university only under a new admission procedure. The accounting of the tests, taking into account the benefits and the time elapsed since the examination and the inclusion in the relevant year, shall be decided by the Dean, after observations by the Head of Department. The third sentence of Paragraph 17 (2) shall apply mutatis mutandis to the performance of special examinations intended to compensate for differences in teaching plans.
Tender proceedings
(1) A serious or repeated violation of the obligations of study, the principles of good conduct or civil obligations is prosecuted as a criminal offence. The following punitive measures may be imposed for criminal offences:
(a) reprimand,
(b) public reprimand;
(c) exclusion from the study.
(2) The disciplinary procedure is carried out and the disciplinary action is imposed by a three-member panel. The panel shall act by a majority vote. The President and members of the disciplinary committee shall be appointed by the Dean from among the members of the Scientific Council. Representatives of student organisations shall be invited to the meeting of the disciplinary committee.
(3) Prior to the imposition of disciplinary action, the student shall be given the opportunity to comment.
(4) Decisions on disciplinary action shall be taken in writing; the decision imposing a public reprimand must also indicate how it will be published.
(5) If criminal proceedings have been introduced with a student, the result will be expected in principle. The disciplinary procedure may be carried out and the disciplinary measure imposed even if the criminal proceedings have been terminated, if an exoneration judgment has been given, or if amnesty has been declared.
(6) The provisions of Paragraph 21 apply to any further study of a student who has been excluded from the study.
Termination of student rights
(1) The student of a full study ceases to be who
(a) completed his studies at university by successfully passing the state final examination;
(b) leaving studies;
(c) has been excluded from the study (§ 19, § 22).
(2) The student whose studies have been interrupted temporarily ceases to be a student.
(3) In the cases referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2, student rights shall cease to exist.
Special provisions for occupational studies
(1) The provisions of Section 15 do not apply to study at work. Paragraph 5 (4) applies mutatis mutandis to external studies.
(2) Students of external studies shall study according to individual or group curriculum, which shall be determined by the Dean in such a way as to cover the content with the daily study curriculum.
(3) Tests in long-distance and evening studies should be completed for the winter semester by 30 September of the current calendar year and for the summer semester by 31 January of the following calendar year.
Special provisions for the study of foreign students University on 17 November
(1) A foreign candidate enrolled at the University on 17 November remains a student of this school throughout his studies in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, even after being enrolled at another university.
(2) In matters covered by Sections 17, 18, 19, 20 and 22, the Dean of the Faculty at which a foreign student is studying decides in agreement with the Rector of University on 17 November.
Special studies
(1) Exceptional study is the study of individual subjects at one or more faculties or universities which are not divided into faculties; does not provide full university education.
(2) A student of a full-time study of another faculty or university, which is not divided into faculties, can also be enrolled in an extraordinary study.
(3) He may take examinations from the subjects which he has written down in his extraordinary studies; on the examinations carried out, the Dean (in universities which are not divided into faculties, rectory) shall issue him a certificate.
(4) If a student in an extraordinary study undergoes examinations on certain subjects and is later enrolled in a proper study, the Dean shall decide, after speaking to the relevant head of the department, to include these examinations in the proper study.
(5) Otherwise, the provisions of § 3 (1), first sentence, § 4, § 5 (1), first sentence, § 6, 10, 12, § 13 (1) and (5), § 14, 18, 22 and 28 apply mutatis mutandis.
Provisions common and final
In universities which are not divided into faculties, the Rector performs the duties of the Dean under this decree.
Appeals
(1) A student may appeal to the decision of the disciplinary commission, the Dean of the faculty or a separate faculty, as well as to the rector of a university which is not divided into faculties, unless such decisions are final under this decree, within 15 days of the date of service of the decision.
(2) The student may appeal to the dean against the decision of the disciplinary committee; His decision is final.
(3) The student can appeal to the rector against the Dean's decision; His decision is final.
(4) A student may appeal to the Ministry of Education and Culture against a decision of the Dean of a separate faculty or rector of a university which is not divided into faculties, as well as against a decision of the Dean of the University of 17 November (§ 25 (2)). The decision of the Ministry of Education and Culture is final. *)
The relevant provisions of the Civil Code apply to damages caused by university students.
Participants in a special external study in technical schools become external students under this decree from the date of application of this decree.
They shall be deleted:
1. General study regulations for universities of 1 September 1954 No 60 000 / 54-C I / 1 (Bulletin of the Ministry of Education and Culture, 1954, p. 283), as amended by the proceeds of the Ministry of Education and Culture of 23 August 1956 No 38 525 / 56-B I / 1 and of 11 August 1964 No 27 308 / 64- III / 2b (Bulletin of the Ministry of Education and Culture, p. 1964, p. 290).
2. General study regulations for distance study at universities of 22 August 1955 No 41 584 / 55- C II / 1, as amended by Decree of the Ministry of Education and Culture of 11 August 1964 No 27 308 / 64- III / 2b (Bulletin of the Ministry of Education and Culture, p. 290).
3. Study regulations for evening study at universities of 3 April 1956 no. 18 294 / 56.
4. Directive on extraordinary studies at universities of 22 December 1954 No 100 038 / 54-C I / 1 (Bulletin of the Ministry of Education and Culture, 1955, p. 12).
5. Instruction on external studies at universities of 11 September 1954 no. 67 307 / 54-C I / 1.
6. Directive on special external studies at universities technical of 10 August 1954 No 59 113 / 54-C II / 1 and of 30 March 1957 No 20 870 / 57-B II / 1.
7. Proceeds from adjusting Russian teaching at universities of 2 August 1952 to 40 123 / 52-V-VII / 3a and of 14 September 1953 to 83 289 / 53.
8. Proceeds from the adjustment of credits and classified credits in general Russian teaching and compulsory physical education of 14 April 1955, No 24 639 / 55-C I / 1.
9. School and disciplinary regulations for university students of 15 April 1953 No 62 150 / 53, as amended by Decree of 22 May 1954 No 27 709 / 54-D / 1 (Ministry of Education and Culture Bulletin, 1954, p. 153) and of 22 August 1956 No 48 819 / 56-B / S.
10. Point 4, 7 and 8 of the instructions on decentralisation in the field of universities of 22 August 1956 No 48 819 / 56-B / S.
This Decree shall take effect on 1 May 1966.
Minister:
Hájek v. r.
*) In Slovakia, the mandate of the SNR for education and culture decides in these cases.
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Regulation Information
| Citation | Decree of the Ministry of Education and Culture No. 25 / 1966 Coll., which publishes the regulations for higher education |
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| Regulation Type | - |
| Author | - |
| Collection | Code of Laws |
| Date of Promulgation | 29.04.1966 |
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| Effective from | 01.05.1966 |
| Effective until | - |
| Status | Valid |
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