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What’s in a credit? ECTS and students’ workload

Learn about the ECTS credit system, the length of the academic year, time spent on studies, average student workload, organization of the academic year, and grading scale. Gain insights into the history and importance of the credit system.

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What’s in a credit? ECTS and students’ workload

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  1. What’s in a credit?ECTS and students’ workload • A bit of history • What’s ECTS and what does it mean? • The length of the academic year • Time spent on studies • What’s an average student? • The organisation of the academic year • The grading scale National Agency for Higher Education

  2. A bit of history • The Swedish credit system: 40 hours a week during 40 weeks • Mobility and Bologna • ECTS: 60 credits in a year = 1500 – 1800 hours National Agency for Higher Education

  3. The length of the academic year • 28 weeks in Turkey and Britain • 40 weeks in Sweden • 42 weeks in the Netherlands • Turkish student 1600 hours in 28 weeks = 57 hours/week? • British student 2 ECTS credits/study week? • Swedish student 1.5 credits/study week? National Agency for Higher Education

  4. Time spent on studies • % studying more than 30 hours/week • Teacher training 51 • Medicine 87 • Psychology 65 • Engineering 75 • Teacher training (2004) 43 National Agency for Higher Education

  5. The average student? • What about studying more than 60 credits a year? • A Bachelor’s degree is necessarily 180 credits, but is it necessarily 3 years? National Agency for Higher Education

  6. The organisation of the academic year • Italy: 1 November – July • Britain: 1 October – early June + Christmas vacation and Easter vacation • Sweden: Mid/late August – early June National Agency for Higher Education

  7. The grading scale • A relative scale (10 % A, 25 % B, 30 % C, 25 % D and 10 % E)? • Or an absolute scale with set standards for the different grades? National Agency for Higher Education

  8. What is needed? • Trust • Systematic monitoring and follow-up of students National Agency for Higher Education

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