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Chapter 11 IMPLEMENTATION PROVISIONS
§ 35. Transitional provisions
(1) Full-time and part-time study status shall apply to students admitted to the university since the academic year 2003/2004.
(2) Prior to 31 August 2009, study programme completion was calculated in credit points, with one credit point corresponding to 40 hours of work or one week of study by a student, including a maximum 20 hours of contact learning.
(3) Starting with the academic year 2009/2010, a common European credit point system has been used in Estonia. In order to calculate the volume of studies completed before 2009/2010, the credit points in the ÕIS are converted into European credit points by automatically multiplying the figure by 1.5.
(4) The formation of study places and the total number given in Subsection 1 of Section 7 of the present Regulations is not applicable to students who matriculated prior to the study year of 2013/2014. The study places are divided according to the source of funding for providing educational services as follows:
4) State-funded or free (SF) study places created based on the State educational order;
5) Non-state funded or paid (NSF) study places or study places created on the basis of an
order by a natural and/or legal person, and where the relationship between the university and the customer is determined by a contract. A student studying in an NSF study place in full-time or part-time study shall remunerate the study costs during the nominal period of study on the basis of semester fees approved in the university Senate.
(5) Subsection4ofSection7ofthepresentRegulationsregardingvacantstudyplacesand fulfilment of them, is not applicable to students who have matriculated before the study year 2013/2014. A vacant SF study place occurs when a student is deleted from the matriculation register or a student fails to complete the requirements for full-time study and is transferred to an NSF study place with a part-time study load. The following students can apply for a vacant study place within the nominal period of study established by the study programme:
1) A full-time NSF student who is applying for a SF study place and has not exceeded the nominal period of study in the same study field and whose estimated year of graduation coincides with the final year of the vacant place;
2) A student applying for re-matriculation. A student cannot apply for re-matriculation before at least one semester has passed from the date of his or her deletion from the matriculation register; a former student deleted from the matriculation register for inappropriate behaviour cannot apply for re-matriculation before at least one year has passed from the date of his/her deletion from the matriculation register;
3) Persons studying at the Open University or an external student who has fulfilled the admission requirements established by the study programme;
4) Full-time students transferring from other universities,
(6) Forstudentswhomatriculatedpriortothestudyyear2013/2014,thenominalperiodof study shall not be extended in the event of studies abroad as mentioned in Clause 2, Subsection 2 of Section 8.
(7) For students who matriculated prior to the study year 2013/2014, the requirements of volume for completing a study programme set out in Section 9 of the present Regulations are applicable, starting with the study results of the 2013/2014 study-year. The requirements that were valid until the study year 2013/2014 state that a student shall cumulatively collect curricular courses per each semester of participation in study as follows: