Credit Accumulation and Transfer SchemeCredit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS) is used by many universities in the United Kingdom to monitor, record and reward passage through a modular degree course and to facilitate movement between courses and institutions. One UK credit is equivalent to the learning outcomes of 10 notional hours of study, thus a university course of 150 notional study hours is worth 15 credits, and a university course of 300 notional study hours is worth 30 credits.
Graduate diplomaA graduate diploma (GradD, GDip, GrDip, GradDip) is generally a qualification taken after completion of a first degree, although the level of study varies in different countries from being at the same level as the final year of a bachelor's degree to being at a level between a master's degree and a doctorate. In some countries the graduate diploma and postgraduate diploma are synonymous, while in others (particularly where the graduate diploma is at undergraduate degree level) the postgraduate diploma is a higher qualification.
Candidat ès sciencesvignette|Pochette du diplôme. Le titre de candidat ès sciences (en кандидат наук, kandidat naouk) est un grade de l'enseignement supérieur d'origine soviétique et largement repris dans les autres pays de l'ancien bloc de l'Est, qui l'ont depuis abandonné. Il est toujours utilisé en Russie. Correspondant globalement à un doctorat français ou un PhD anglo-saxon, il récompense un travail de recherche primaire dans un domaine scientifique.
School of educationIn the United States and Canada, a school of education (or college of education; ed school) is a division within a university that is devoted to scholarship in the field of education, which is an interdisciplinary branch of the social sciences encompassing sociology, psychology, linguistics, economics, political science, public policy, history, and others, all applied to the topic of elementary, secondary, and post-secondary education. The U.S. has 1,206 schools, colleges and departments of education and they exist in 78 per cent of all universities and colleges.
Bachelor of Civil LawLe terme de Bachelor of Civil Law (abrégé en BCL ou B.C.L.) désigne une série de diplômes de droit dans les pays anglophones ou anglo-saxons. C'est un des Bachelor of Law. C'était, à l'origine, un diplôme de deuxième cycle (postgraduate) des universités d'Oxford et de Cambridge mais aujourd'hui, de nombreuses universités offrent ce diplôme en fin de premier cycle (undergraduate). La notion de droit civil (civil law) n'était pas, à l'origine, opposée à la notion de common law (droit jurisprudentiel) mais à celle du droit canon.
Academic majorAn academic major is the academic discipline to which an undergraduate student formally commits. A student who successfully completes all courses required for the major qualifies for an undergraduate degree. The word major (also called concentration, particularly at private colleges) is also sometimes used administratively to refer to the academic discipline pursued by a graduate student or postgraduate student in a master's or doctoral program. An academic major typically involves completion of a combination of required and elective courses in the chosen discipline.
