The Vice-Chancellor's decision on translation of grades according to ECTS
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For comparison of grades, The Vice-Chancellor of Umeå University has decided that the ECTS Grading Table shall be used instead of the ECTS grading scale (A-F).
In February 2009, the European Commission issued a new ECTS User's Guide containing guidelines for how grades should be declared in order to enable comparison. According to the User's Guide, the previously used ECTS grading scale (A-F) hasn't met the needs, particularly in countries using less than seven grades in their grading system. In the User's Guide it is recommended to use the ECTS Grading Table instead, as described in the Vice-Chancellor’s decision below.
The Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Umeå University at the time, Åsa Bergenheim, took part in a work group engaged by the Association of Swedish Higher Education in order to work out recommendations for how Swedish higher education institutions should declare grades according to ECTS. The group worked out recommendations following those in the ECTS User's Guide.
What does this mean, for Umeå University?
Following the recommendations from the work group engaged by the Association of Swedish Higher Education, the Vice-Chancellor has decided that the ECTS Grading Table shall be used at Umeå University for translation of grades according to ECTS. This means that:
students asking for it shall be handed a transcript of records from the study documentation system (Ladok) showing the distribution of awarded grades since the course was established with the current course code and until the date when the student has completed his/her course.
grade distribution will not show for courses established less than two years before the date when the student has completed his/her course.
the ECTS grading scale (A-F) shall no longer be used to translate grades for comparison to grades issued from other higher education institutions. This decision does not affect the use of grades A-F as the ordinary grading scale for a course.
