Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine Regulation on Academic Mobility Right (credit and degree mobility)
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CABINET OF MINISTERS OF UKRAINE
RESOLUTION
On August 12, 2015, № 579
Kyiv
On Approval of the Regulation
for implementation procedure of academic mobility right
According to Paragraph 23 Part 1 Article 13 of the Law of Ukraine “On Higher Education” Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, establishes:
To approve the Regulation on the implementation procedure of academic mobility right.
Prime Minister of Ukraine
А. Yatsenyuk
Ind. 73
APPROVED
by the Resolution of the Cabinet
of Ministers of Ukraine
on August 12, 2015, № 579
REGULATION
on the implementation procedure of academic mobility right
1. This Regulation establishes procedure of academic mobility programs organisation for the educational process participants of national higher education institutions (research institutions) (hereinafter – national participants of educational process) in the territory of Ukraine or abroad, and the educational process participants of the foreign higher education institutions (research institutions) (hereinafter – foreign participants of educational process) in the territory of Ukraine.
2. Goals, objectives and general rules for provision and implementation of academic mobility right shall comply with the basic principles of Joint Declaration of the European Ministers of Education “European Higher Education Area” Bologna, June 19, 1999 (Bologna Declaration).
3. National participants of the educational process and higher education institutions (research institutions) and foreign participants of the educational process and education institutions (research institutions), participating in academic mobility programs are participants of academic mobility.
4. Academic mobility right can be implemented on the basis of international agreements on cooperation in education and research, international programs and projects, inter-institutional cooperation agreements between national higher education institutions (research institutions) or their main structural units, between national and foreign higher education institutions (research institutions) and their main structural units (hereinafter – higher education institutions (research institutions) – partners); and can also be implemented for national participants of the educational process on its own initiative, supported by the administration of the national higher education institution (research institutions), in which he/she study or work, based on the individual invitations and other mechanisms.
5. According to the place of academic mobility right implementation, it is divided into:
Internal academic mobility – academic mobility, the right to which is implemented by national participants of the educational process in higher educational institutions (research institutions) – partners in the territory of Ukraine;
International academic mobility – academic mobility, the right to which is implemented by national participants of the educational process in higher education institutions (research institutions) – partners outside Ukraine and foreign participants of the educational process in national higher education institutions (research institutions).
The main types of academic mobility are:
Degree mobility — study at higher education institution different from place of education of educational process participant, with the aim to obtain a higher education degree which is evidenced by a document (documents) on higher education or a higher education degree of two or more higher education institutions;
Credit mobility — study at higher education institution different from place of education of educational process participant, with the aim to accumulate ECTS credits and / or the relevant competences, learning outcomes (without ECTS credits), which will be recognized by the home higher education institution of national or foreign participant of educational process. The general period of study for such participants of credit mobility programmes remains unchanged.
6. Study of the national and foreign participants of educational process based on agreed educational programs (curricula) between higher education institutions (research institutions) – partners, which include academic mobility programs, may foresee that graduates will receive the diploma of higher education institution (research institutions) – a partner and joint or double diplomas of higher education institutions (research institutions) – partners.
7. Forms of academic mobility for participants of the educational process, under degrees of Junior Bachelor, Bachelor, Master and PhD at the national higher education institutions are:
learning on academic mobility programs;
language internship;
research internship.
8. Forms of academic mobility for persons who acquire a degree of Doctor of Science, academic staff and other participants of the educational process are:
participation in cooperation projects;
teaching;
research;
research internship;
training/ in-service training.
9. Students, enrolled into higher education programmes within internal academic mobility programs, are recruited into higher education institutions (research institutions) – partners in Ukraine as a temporarily accepted to the educational process and have the rights and obligations of students of the national higher education institution (research institution).
10. Based on the agreement between academic mobility participants:
the selection of participants of the educational process for participation in the programs of academic mobility is carried out;
the list of requirements and documents necessary for confirmation to participate in academic mobility programme, procedure and deadlines of submission are regulated;
the stages, financial condition, types and forms of academic mobility, duration and content of learning, training and internship in higher education institutions (research institutions) are defined;
the conditions of learning outcomes recognition, learning, training and internship or research as well as reporting of academic staff are defined.
11. Students’ place and scholarship are retained during the learning, internship, research and training at another higher education institution (research institution) – partner in the territory of Ukraine or outside, in accordance with the legislation, based on the signed Inter-institutional agreement on academic mobility, if the scholarship is not provided by the academic mobility programme.
12. Individuals who concluded agreements for academic mobility programmes are not excluded from the students for the period of academic mobility right implementation and are recorded in the Single State Electronic Database on Education.
13. Students, except obligatory courses which he/she studies at higher education institution – partner, has the right to elect additional courses based on agreement with the home higher education institution.
14. Foreign students, implementing academic mobility right in the framework of cooperation inter-institutional agreements between national and foreign higher education institutions (research institutions) – partners may be admitted to the study at the national higher education institutions:
funded by the international programs and organizations;
funded by higher education institutions revenues;
funded by the physical or legal persons;
on free of charge basis, in case of exchange of students including under joint educational programmes, which foresee joint or double diploma based on free of change international exchange programmes, if the number foreign of students does not exceed quantity of national students studying at the foreign higher education institution – partner of academic mobility according to inter-intuitional agreements on academic mobility.
15. Academic staff of higher education institutions (research institutions) of all forms of ownership may exercise their academic mobility right for professional activities in accordance with the concluded agreement on the program of academic mobility. At the same time their place of job at the national higher education (research institution) is retained by one year period. According to legislation, their salary is remained for up to six months at main job place, if it does not provided by academic mobility program.
16. Foreign academic staff of higher educational institutions (research institutions), who are involved into educational and research activities at the national higher education institution (research institution)-partner have all rights and responsibilities of its employees.
Conditions of arrival of the leading foreign researchers and academics for the invitation of national higher education institutions (research institutions) and their stay in Ukraine may be specified by additional agreements between the national institution of higher education (research institutions) and invited person.
17. The learning outcomes recognition is based on the ECTS.
Comparison of workload within the framework of academic mobility should be based on a comparison of learning outcomes achieved by student in higher education institution – partner and planned learning outcomes of educational program (curricula) of the home higher education institution.
If the student during the study at higher education institution (research institution) – partner implementing the academic mobility right, has not fulfilled the educational programme, after returning to home higher education institution (research institution), he/she may be asked to schedule individual track to cope with debts or be re-trained at the expenses of physical or legal persons.