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ECTS (European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System)

The European credit system, in which one academic year is 60 ECTS credits; two UK credits roughly equal one ECTS credit.

Stands for
European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System
Used in
International
Topic
Higher education

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Credit (UK) All four UK nations (details may differ)
A unit of qualification size; in the RQF and CQFW one credit is 10 notional hours of learning, and in UK higher education a typical full-time year is 120 credits.
Credit hour United States
A US unit of college credit, usually based on one hour of class a week over a semester; a full-time load is about 12 to 15 credit hours.
Bologna Process International
The agreement among European countries to make higher education systems compatible, through a three-cycle degree structure and credit transfer.

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