There Lusophone university students with training credited to your academic irregularly process that may have to go back to university banks in order to recover the academic degree, said the Ministry of Education and Science (MEC).
According to explanations of guardianship sent to Lusa, the Lusophone University of Humanities and Technology (ULHT) referred the April 10 to MEC “information on the measures adopted in order to comply with the order of the Secretary of State for Education Superior of 16 December, which annexed invalidity orders of the acts of crediting identified in the report of IGEC [General Inspection of Education and Science “with such invalidity.”
According to the ministry, these documents are now being examined by the IGEC.
At stake are 152 academic processes, in which the IGEC detected, a inspetiva action, irregularities in formations crediting (equivalence for work experience or other formations), which, stressed the MEC, necessarily affects the academic training of students and graduates who have obtained accreditations. “
The university was obliged to make the cancellation of certificates and diplomas issued to students with irregular academic processes.
“In specific cases, also was ULHT required to promote the opening of new crediting procedures in accordance with the legislation in force. In cases not covered by the previous paragraph, may interested, wanting to resume the academic path to obtain the degree, “said the authority.
In response to questions raised by Lusa, Lusophone insisted whenever “none of the acts null in question relate to degree granting acts itself,” saying in question were procedural flaws as, for example, “illegible signatures”, which could give rise to a correction for a declaration of invalidity of last act and re-instruction of the process in compliance with the legal requirements.
However, in statements to Lusa, the Secretary of State for Higher Education, José Ferreira Gomes, had already admitted that the procedural flaws found in crediting the formations could have the “unpleasant consequences for some students.”
“When it identifies an error, either procedure is substance, one of these accreditations, the student is no discipline. If discipline is essential to complete the course, the course is no, “he said.
But, he added,” it may be that it is a formal error, and in some cases may be. What if the institution is asked to check and to reconstruct these processes. “
The MEC had given ULHT a period that ended today and that was fulfilled by the institution to correct 152 cases related to irregular assignments credits, after having informed the university that annulled only 75 of these processes.
The irregularities in 152 academic processes were detected by IGEC following the so-called “case Relvas” related to the alleged irregular getting some . credits in the degree of the former Minister José Relvas (assignment college credits based on professional experience)
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