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
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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
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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?
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Time spent on studies
% studying more than 30 hours/week
Teacher training 51
Medicine 87
Psychology 65
Engineering 75
Teacher training (2004) 43
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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?
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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
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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?
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What is needed?
Trust
Systematic monitoring and follow-up of students
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