is an identity card which can be used as a debit card

Another name for graduation

The graduation ceremony for candidates who have completed their studies.

Specific group of courses outside of major that are required for graduation from college

Total number of credit hours student enrolls in during a semester

Value assigned to a specific module. Students are required to take a certain number of credits in order to complete degree requirements

Course Reference Number. This is a unique number given to an instance of a module.

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A dynamic combination of cognitive and metacognitive skills,knowledge and understanding, interpersonal, intellectual and practical skills, ethical values and attitudes. Fostering competences is the object of all educational programmes. Competences are developed in all course units and assessed at different stages of a programme. Some competences are subject-area related (specific to a field of study), others are generic (common to any degree course). It is normally the case that competence development proceeds in an integrated and cyclical manner throughout a programme.

Hours (typically a period of 45-60 minutes) spent by students on activities guided by teaching staff.

All qualifications in the European Higher Education Area are located within three cycles. One of the objectives indicated in the Bologna Declaration in 1999 was the “adoption of a system based on two main cycles, undergraduate and graduate.” In 2003 doctoral studies were also included in the Bologna structure and referred to as the third cycle.

Generic statements of the broad expected outcomes of each of the three cycles. A good example of general cycle (level) descriptors are the so-called Dublin Descriptors, which have served as one of the foundations (along with ECTS) for the Framework for Qualifications of the European Higher Education Area.