A COMMON LANGUAGE FOR ACADEMIC RECOGNITION

The European Community promotes study abroad as a means of improving the quality of academic cooperation bringing benefits to students and higher education institutions.

Studying abroad can be a particularly valuable experience. It is not only the best way to learn about other countries, ideas, languages and cultures; increasingly, it is an important part of professional and academic career development.

Students envisaging a study abroad will be looking for:

• study programmes which are relevant to their final degree,
• full academic recognition which ensures that they will not lose time in completing their degree by studying abroad.

To help students make the most from their study abroad, the European Commission has developed a European Credit Transfer System, which provides a way of measuring and comparing learning achievements, and transferring them from one institution to another.

ECTS helps higher education institutions to enhance their cooperation with other institutions by:

• improving access to information on foreign curricula,
• providing common procedures for academic recognition.

ECTS can also be used within one institution or between institutions within one country.

Within the framework of the improvement course, 1 credit is equal to 12 academic hours, which includes independent participation in an international seminar, a republican contest, a conference and an olympiad, as well as video lectures on the subject of the course. To ensure self-participation in training, video content is posted on the public page of the course publication.

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