Course (Amendment) Regulations, 2021

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L.N. 169 of 2021

EDUCATION ACT

(CAP. 327)

Certificate in Engineering Sciences

Course (Amendment) Regulations, 2021

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred upon him by articles 74 (5) and 75 (6) of the

Education Act (Cap. 327), the Chancellor of the University of Malta has promulgated

the following regulations made by the Senate of the University of Malta by virtue of

the powers conferred upon it by articles 75 (3) and 79 (b) of the said Act

Citation

These regulations may be cited as the Certificate in Engineering Sciences

Course (Amendment) Regulations, 2021 and shall be read and construed as one with

the Certificate in Engineering Sciences Course Regulations, 2020, published as Legal

Notice 396 of 2020, hereinafter referred to as “the principal regulations”.

Applicability

These regulations shall be applicable for courses commencing in

October 2021 or later, except for regulation 4 of these regulations which shall be

applicable from 22 nd February, 2021 onwards.

Amendment to regulation 4 of the principal regulations

For paragraph (1) of regulation 4 of the principal regulations there shall

be substituted the following

“4. (1) The Course shall extend over a period of two semesters of full-

time study or four semesters of part-time study.”

Amendment to regulation 7 of the principal regulations

The following paragraphs (3) and (4) shall be added after paragraph (2)

of regulation 7 of the principal regulations

“(3) Students who fail in a study-unit declared to be compensatable in the

programme of study with a mark of not less than 35% shall be awarded the grade CP

(Compensated Pass) if their Weighted Year Average Mark is at least 50%. Study-

units passed by compensation shall not be re-assessed.

(4) Students may not be awarded more than 12 ECTS credits through

compensated passes.”

Paragraph (3) of regulation 7 of the principal regulations shall be

renumbered as paragraph (4).

Addition of regulation 9 to the principal regulations

The following regulation 9 shall be added after regulation 8 of the

principal regulations

“Special Provision for Part-Time Courses

The provisions of the foregoing regulations shall apply mutatis

mutandis to courses followed on a part-time basis, and subject to such changes as

may reasonably be deemed by the Board of Studies as necessary due to the part-time

nature of the Course.”

7. Regulations 9 and 10 shall be re-numbered as regulations 10 and 11.

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