Many
of the higher level programmes offered by the Malta College of Arts,
Science and Technology (MCAST) extend over a period of two or three
years. During each year of study students are expected to cover a
number of units or modules and to perform adequately in the assessments
forming part of the programme.
In situations where students do
not manage to obtain a number of units provision is made for the
students to re-do the work necessary in order for them to progress into
later years.
The number of units a candidate may re-sit is
limited by the course regulations as is the number of times that a
candidate may re-submit work which had previously been submitted and
considered to be of insufficient standard.
In those instances
where the academic performance of the candidate is considered to be
insufficient, the student is withheld from progressing to the second or
third year of their course and is offered the chance to repeat the year
in order to achieve the unobtained units. This facility is given to all
students facilities permitting.
University Tertiary Education
Over
one full-time academic year university students are expected to cover a
number of study-units, on successful completion of which students are
awarded a total of 60 ECTS credits. On obtaining the 60 ECTS credits
students can register as regular students in the following year of
their course. Students who fail to obtain all the credits can sit for a
supplementary session under certain conditions. Those students who
after the supplementary session need not more than 10 ECTS credits in
order to successfully complete the course programme for the year,
whenever possible and after academic counselling by the Dean and / or the Head of Department, are given one of the three following options:
(a) refer the failed study-units to the following year to be done over and above the study-units indicated for that year, or
(b) repeat the unit in an additional year of studies if the student is in the final year of the course, or
(c) repeat the year, if eligible in terms of the regulations.
Those
students who opt to refer failed units to the following year (option A)
are progressed to the next year of studies and are considered as
conditionally progressed students. Students who again fail the
assessment of a referred study unit in a normal session of examinations
are allowed a final re-assessment in the September supplementary
session if they are eligible according to regulations. Students are not
allowed to continue with the course if, after the supplementary
assessment session of that year, they again fail to obtain the required
credits for any of the referred compulsory units. A study unit may be
referred to the following year only once.
Students who, by the
end of a particular academic year of study, lack more than 16 of the
credits required for their current year including credits for referred
study-units are not allowed to sit for the supplementary session. These
students are required to repeat the year if eligible in terms of the
regulations. If they are not eligible to repeat a year, students are
required to withdraw from the course. Students are allowed to repeat
the same year of a course once only.
In the final year of a
course students, who after the supplementary session of examinations,
still need to successfully complete only one study-unit (normally a
dissertation, a long essay or a project) to which more than 8 ECTS
credits are assigned in order to successfully complete the course, may
be allowed an extra year of study in which to complete the missing unit.
Institutions:
University of Malta University of Malta Msida MSD 06 Malta Tel.:++356 2340 2828 Fax:++356 21 336450 E-mail: intoff@um.edu.mt Website: http://www.um.edu.mt
Malta College of Arts, Science and Technology
(MCAST) Main Campus Corradino Hill Paola, PLA 08
Malta Tel.:++35621 801 590 Fax:+356 21801596 Website: http://www.mcast.edu.mt
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