Government Decree No. 60 / 1953 Coll.
Regulation on scientific degrees and the designation of graduates of universities
Valid
Effective from 01.09.1953
60.
Government Regulation
of 23 June 1953
on scientific evaluations and the designation of university graduates.
The Government of the Czechoslovak Republic, with the agreement of the President of the Republic pursuant to § 42 (1) of Act No. 241 / 1948 Coll., on the first five-year Economic Plan for the Development of the Czechoslovak Republic (Act on the Five-Year Plan), under § 21 (2) and § 23 (2) of the Act No. 58 / 1950 Coll., on universities, under § 25 (a) of Act No. 52 / 1952 Coll., on the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, and under Act No. 90 / 1952 Coll., on the Czechoslovak Academy of Agricultural Sciences:
Scientific rank.
The universities, the faculties of universities and the scientific institutes of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, the Slovak Academy of Sciences and the Czechoslovak Academy of Agricultural Sciences (hereinafter referred to as the "institutes') grant special scientific qualifications in order to encourage efforts to increase scientific qualifications as well as to guarantee a high level of scientific work.
Scientific degrees are given in two stages:
(a) the rank of candidate for science; and
(b) Doctor of Sciences
with the addition of the designation of the relevant scientific field (Section 8).
(1) The scientific rank of a candidate of science may be awarded to university graduates (or, exceptionally, to other staff) who will demonstrate the successful completion of the aspiration or the conduct of candidate examinations in addition to general knowledge in a particular field of science, and who will publicly certify the competence for independent creative scientific work by defending candidate dissertation.
(2) In agreement with the President of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and with the members of the Government of the Candidate Examinations Directive, the Minister of Higher Education shall determine, in particular, when workers who are not university graduates may be allowed to carry out these examinations and when exemption from those examinations may be permitted.
(1) The scientific rank of Doctor of Sciences may be awarded to a candidate who:
(a) has reached the rank of candidate for science; and
(b) defend the doctoral dissertation.
(2) Doctoral dissertation is demonstrated by creative scientific work, which has been solved or theoretically generalized by a serious scientific problem or scientifically justified by the formulation of a new serious scientific problem.
The defence of doctoral dissertation may exceptionally be accepted without the achievement of the rank of candidate of sciences:
(a) professors of universities;
(b) persons known to have significant scientific work, discoveries or inventions;
(c) candidates for the rank of candidate of sciences whose candidate dissertation has a scientific level of doctoral dissertation, according to a critical assessment by both scientists (opponents), given by the faculty or scientific board for assessment (§ 11 (2), second sentence).
Good members - academics of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences are responsible for the scientific rank of Doctor of Sciences since their election or appointment.
(1) In order to express a high honor for the special merits of the nation, state and human progress in the field of science, the Board of Higher Education may, with the approval of the Minister of Higher Education, grant the honorary scientific rank of doctor of science to excellent domestic and foreign scientific or public workers without defending dissertation.
(2) The right to award the honorary scientific rank of Doctor of Sciences is also for the General Assembly of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, the Slovak Academy of Sciences and the Czechoslovak Academy of Agricultural Sciences (hereinafter referred to as the Academy of Sciences).
(3) The approval of the Government is needed to give foreign nationals the honorary scientific rank of doctor of science.
(1) The scientific fields in which scientific degrees are awarded are:
biological sciences,
economic sciences,
pharmaceutical sciences,
philosophical sciences,
philosophical sciences,
Physical- mathematical sciences,
geographical sciences,
geological-mineralogical sciences,
historical sciences,
chemical sciences,
medical sciences,
pedagogical sciences,
legal sciences,
technical sciences,
art science,
veterinary sciences,
Military sciences,
agricultural sciences.
(2) Other fields of science in which scientific degrees are awarded shall be determined by the State Commission on Scientific Aspects.
The Government determines, on a proposal from the State Commission on Scientific Aspects, which faculties of universities and institutes have the right to award the scientific rank of candidate of sciences in individual fields and which universities, faculties of universities and institutes have the right to award the scientific rank of doctor of sciences in individual fields.
(1) In the Ministry of Higher Education, it is established as a body for matters relating to the award of scientific degrees by the State Commission on Scientific Positions ("the State Commission ').
(2) In particular, the State Commission has the following competence:
(a) oversees the award of scientific degrees and issues the necessary directives;
(b) establish other scientific fields in which scientific degrees are awarded;
(c) propose to the Government, through the Minister of Higher Education, which the faculties of universities and institutes have the right to award in individual scientific fields the scientific rank of the candidate of sciences and which universities, universities and institutes have the right to award in individual scientific fields the scientific rank of doctor of sciences;
(d) decide on requests for exemption from candidate examinations;
(e) decide on appeals and objections concerning the award of scientific degrees;
f) confirms the award of the scientific degree of Doctor of Sciences,
(g) issue diplomas to persons who have been awarded a scientific rank;
(h) abolish, in serious cases, the decisions of the faculty board or scientific council of the Institute on the award of the scientific rank of candidate of sciences;
(ch) decide on the withdrawal of the scientific rank of doctor of science to persons who have embezzled the cause of peace and socialism if the loss of rank has not already occurred in the judgment.
(3) The President of the State Commission shall be the Minister of Higher Education. The Deputy Chairperson, the Scientific Secretary and the other members of the State Commission shall be appointed by the Government on a proposal from the Minister of Higher Education, submitted in agreement with the President of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and with the members of the Government, in whose field certain higher education institutions fall. The President, his deputy and scientific secretary of the State Commission shall form the presidium of the State Commission.
(4) Decisions of the State Commission shall be published in the Official Journal of the Ministry of Higher Education.
(5) The Organisational and Rules of Procedure of the National Commission will be issued and its powers will be further amended by the Minister of Higher Education in agreement with the President of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and the participating members of the Government.
(1) The defence of the candidate dissertation is held at a public meeting of the faculty board or scientific council of the Institute. Other scientists of the same or related scientific field shall be invited to the meeting. In addition to the members of the faculty board or scientific board of the institute, these scientists also have the right to participate in the discussion. Other university teachers or scientists may also be invited to discuss the candidate dissertation by the Dean of the Faculty (Director of the Scientific Institute), provided that, according to the nature of the matter, there is no need to exclude wider participation from important state interests.
(2) At the meeting he will present the dissertant's basic thesis. Two scientists (opponents) who have been given the work by the faculty or scientific board for consideration will give their critical opinion on this work.
(3) According to the result of the defence of the candidate dissertation, the faculty board (Scientific Council of the Institute) shall decide, with the participation of at least two thirds of its members in the secret vote by a majority of the members present, on the award of the scientific rank of the candidate of sciences.
(4) The Faculty Council (Scientific Council of the Institute) will deliver the decision to the Dissertant and publish it publicly.
(5) The decisions may be challenged by universities, academies of science, scientific institutes and other scientific institutes at the State Commission within 60 days of the date of publication of the decision. A dissertant may appeal to that commission within 60 days of the date of notification of that decision.
(6) The State Commission shall hear the objection or appeal of the body which has decided and, in so doing, the dissertant, request the expert opinion of the Ministry of Higher Education and decide within 3 months of the date of publication of the decision. If it decides in favour of a dissertant, it shall order the faculty board (Scientific Council of the Institute) to award it the rank of candidate of sciences, after confirming its positive decision.
(7) If no objections or appeals have been made to the dissertant, the State Commission shall give him a diploma.
(1) The defence of doctoral dissertation is held at a public meeting of the Board of Higher Education, Faculty Board or Scientific Council of the Institute, in principle in the same way as the defence of the candidate dissertation. Objective and fundamental analysis of dissertation with detailed assessment by three scientists (opponents)
(2) According to the outcome of the defence of doctoral dissertation, the competent council shall decide, with the participation of at least two thirds of the number of its members in a secret vote by a majority of the members present, on the award of the scientific rank of Doctor of Sciences.
(3) The competent board shall deliver the decision to the dissertant and publish it publicly.
(4) The decisions may be challenged by universities, academies of science, scientific institutes and other scientific institutes at the State Commission within 60 days of the date of publication of the decision. A dissertant may appeal to that commission within 60 days of the date of notification of that decision.
(5) The State Commission shall hear the objection or appeal of the body which has decided and, in so doing, the dissertant, request the expert opinion of the Ministry of Higher Education and decide within 3 months of the date of publication of the decision. If it decides in favour of a dissertant, it shall require the competent board to grant him the rank of doctor of science, after which it shall confirm its positive decision. The diploma will be issued to the dissertant of the State Commission.
(6) If there is no objection or appeal and the State Commission agrees to a positive decision of the relevant Council, it shall confirm them and issue a diploma to the dissertant.
(1) The rank of candidate for science and doctor of science is forfeited by persons who have lost their civil rights or otherwise misplaced themselves in matters of peace and socialism.
(2) If the loss has not already been made by the judgment (§ 43 of the Criminal Act), the faculty council or scientific council of the institute which decided on the award of the degree shall declare the withdrawal of the grade of the candidate of the sciences. The withdrawal of the rank of Doctor of Science will be made by the State Commission.
(3) If the scientific rank has been withdrawn or the decision to grant it has been revoked, the diploma should be returned to the State Commission if it has already been awarded.
(1) The Minister for Higher Education is responsible for overseeing the award of scientific degrees.
(2) In serious cases, the Minister of Higher Education shall be entitled to revoke the decision of the competent authority on the award of scientific degrees and to impose a renegotiation.
Academic degrees and state titles shall not be awarded in the future. The academic grades and the status marks which were awarded before the application of this Regulation shall remain unaffected.
The scientific grades granted under this Regulation shall be given in full (without abbreviations).
Final provisions.
In agreement with the President of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and with participating members of the Government, the Minister of Higher Education provides details of this Regulation, in particular on the management of the award of scientific degrees.
This Regulation shall not apply to higher education institutions.
(1) This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 September 1953; for graduates of medical and veterinary faculties, it shall take effect on 1 January 1954.
(2) Paragraph 17 also applies to university graduates who study at the end of the study year 1952 / 1953 and who, without completing their doctoral studies, perform prescribed examinations before 1 September 1953.
(3) This Regulation shall be implemented by the Minister for Higher Education in agreement with the participating members of the Government.
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Regulation Information
| Citation | Government Decree No. 60 / 1953 Coll., on Scientific Aspects and on the Designation of Graduates of Higher Education |
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| Regulation Type | - |
| Author | - |
| Collection | Code of Laws |
| Date of Promulgation | 24.07.1953 |
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| Effective from | 01.09.1953 |
| Effective until | - |
| Status | Valid |
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