Credit accumulation system
What is the credit accumulation system?
Starting in the 2009-2010 academic year, K.U.Leuven will transfer all of its education programmes to a so-called ‘credit accumulation system’ or educational model. The implementation of the entire concept will take two academic years (2009-2010 and 2010-2011).
- The credit accumulation system or educational model is a new way of structuring and organising the academic offering. Instead of deliberating each academic year, deliberations will only be held at the end of a degree programme.
- Thus, deliberations concerning one programme year will cease in this structure. However, the programmes will still be composed of various educational stages.
- A new tolerance regulation will replace the current deliberation criteria.
- Starting in 2010-2011, the examination schedule will be made available at the beginning of the academic year.
- New measures will be introduced concerning the monitoring of study progress and limiting the period of study.
- After each examination period, students will receive clear information concerning the level of their individual results. The criteria for obtaining a degree, including the tolerance regulation, will also be communicated to the students in a comprehensible manner.
What exactly will change for students who are currently enrolled at the K.U.Leuven?
- All positively completed previous programme years remain obtained. Students will not have to resit courses for which they have been deliberated, even if they obtained 7/20 before 2009-2010.
- Passing results which have already been obtained outside a completed programme year are transferred into the new system.
- Students must decide for themselves if they wish to use tolerance credit for results of 8/20 or 9/20.
