- Regulations for Doctoral Studies
- I. General provisions
- II. Doctoral Studies
- II.1. Learners in doctoral studies
- II.2. Supervision
- II.3. Filling a vacant student place
- II.4. Organisation of study
- II.4.1. General principles
- II.4.2. Period of study, suspension of doctoral studies and changes to the period of study of doctoral students matriculated to doctoral programmes opened from the 2022/2023 academic year
- II.4.3. Workload, academic leave and extending the period of study of doctoral students matriculated to doctoral curricula opened before the 2022/2023 academic year
- II.4.4. Individual plan
- II.5. Progress review
- II.5.1. Progress review schedule
- II.5.2. Progress review committee
- II.5.3. Documents required for progress review
- II.5.4. Progress review meeting
- II.5.5. Decisions of the progress review committee
- II.5.5.1. Decisions of the progress review committee regarding learners in doctoral studies in doctoral programmes opened from the 2022/2023 academic year
- II.5.5.2. Decisions of the progress review committee regarding learners in doctoral studies in doctoral curricula opened before the 2022/2023 academic year
- II.5.6. Repeat progress review and appealing a progress review decision
- II.6. Exmatriculation
- III. Applying for Doctoral Degree
- III.1. Completion of the doctoral programme
- III.2. Council awarding doctoral degrees
- III.3. Requirements for doctoral candidate
- III.4. Requirements for doctoral thesis
- III.4.1. General requirements for doctoral thesis
- III.4.2. Doctoral thesis as an integrated collection of research publications
- III.4.3. Doctoral thesis as a monograph
- III.4.4. Requirement for research publications and the introductory chapter
- III.4.5. Requirements for patents, patent applications and applied solutions
- III.4.6. Structure of the doctoral thesis
- III.5. Allowing a doctoral thesis to be defended
- III.6. Publication of the doctoral thesis
- III.7. Defence of the doctoral thesis
- III.8. Applying for doctoral degree and defence of the doctoral thesis under a joint supervision agreement
- III.9. Contesting and overruling the decisions of the council awarding doctoral degrees
- III.10. Preservation of the doctoral thesis
- IV. Implementing provisions
- Study Regulations
- I. General provisions
- II. Courses and modules
- III. Following the curriculum
- IV. Assessment
- V. Completion of studies
- VI. Filling vacant student places and rematriculation
- VII. Additional rights and obligations of students
- VII.1. Notification
- VII.2. Counselling
- VII.3. Making adaptations in studies
- VII.4. Giving feedback
- VII.5. Studying at other higher education institutions in Estonia
- VII.6. Studying at higher education institutions abroad
- VII.7. Academic leave
- VII.8. Extension of studies
- VII.9. Good academic practice
- VII.10. Contesting decisions concerning the organisation of studies
- Annex 1. Studying as a visiting student or external student
- Annex 2. Intensive study of Estonian
- Annex 3. Recognition of prior learning and professional experience
Regulations for Doctoral Studies and Study Regulations
II. Courses and modules
II.1. Courses
7. A course is an organised unit of teaching, studies, and assessment of learning outcomes in a specific field of knowledge. The task of the teaching staff member in charge is to ensure that the learning outcomes, content, methods of learning and teaching, assessment methods and criteria are consistent with one another.
8. Studies are planned in a course for each semester when the course is taught in the version of the course.
9. The course version for the semester is prepared by the teaching staff member in charge and approved by the programme director. The version of a course that is not included in a curriculum is approved by the head of institute, or the vice dean for academic affairs for a faculty course. The version of a course prepared by a non-faculty institution and a support unit is approved by the head of the institution or structural unit with the consent of the Academic Affairs Committee formed by the vice rector for academic affairs.
10. The course information in the semester when it is taught must include the following:
10.1. the title of the course in Estonian and English;
10.2. the course code;
10.3. the name of the teaching staff member in charge and if possible, names of other teaching staff members;
10.4. the workload of the course;
10.5. brief description of the course content in Estonian and English;
10.6. forms of study and their proportion;
10.7. learning outcomes of the course in Estonian and English;
10.8. the grading scale of learning outcomes (differentiated or non-differentiated);
10.9. assessment methods and criteria;
10.10. principles of grading;
10.11. the list of topics discussed;
10.12. the time of communicating assessment results;
10.13. the procedure of taking resits;
10.14. the minimum number of participants for the course to take place;
10.15. a list of compulsory and recommended study materials, if available, or reference to a web address;
10.16. the deadline for the cancellation of registration to the course, which is at least two weeks from the first contact learning session, or another period established for the course, which is not less than 10% of the duration of the contact learning;
10.17. if necessary, other information needed for completing the course.
11. The data listed in subclauses 10.11–10.16 are not provided for practical training, graduation thesis and final exam.
12. If necessary, the course information may show limitations to participation in the course, such as compulsory prerequisite courses, completed curriculum/curricula, level of study, curriculum, the acquired qualification, the maximum number of participants, the form of study and/or the location of study. Within three weeks of the beginning of registration for a course, registration for compulsory courses may be limited based on faculty, institute or college.
13. The course information for courses taught in the next academic year is made public in the Study Information System by the date established in the academic calendar. After approval, information published for the semester can be changed with the consent of students who have registered for the course; such consent must be presented in a format that can be reproduced in writing.
14. If the course code or volume in ECTS changes, a new course must be opened.
15. In the timetable, the following information is entered for each course: course title, volume and code, the name(s) of teaching staff, the time, location and dates (weekday, weeks of study) of contact learning, time of assessment of learning outcomes. In the case of online learning, the time of study is not entered and the location is shown as a web address.
16. The teaching staff member in charge of the course and the programme director are responsible for updating course information and its timely entering in the Study Information System. The programme director is responsible for entering information about contact learning and any changes in it in the Study Information System and communicating the changes to those registered for the courses.
