Enrollment – Enrollment renewal – Course Declarations

Enrollment of first year students is carried out through the submission of a registration form and any necessary supporting documents within a specific deadline (set by the Ministry of Education, Life-Long Learning and Religious Affairs).

Upon registration, the Secretariat provides students with:

1.      a student identity card

2.      the TEI-A and the Department Studies Guides

3.      Informative brochures 

Enrollment Renewal by students is carried out electronically on specific dates at the beginning of each semester. Students who do not renew their enrollment for two consecutive years or for three non-consecutive semesters will automatically be deleted from the Department.

Re-enrollment will only be permitted in the case of grave extenuating circumstances.

Students declare the courses they intend to attend each semester. They are entitled to declare up to 45 teaching hours, which is increased to 55 for students who are “pending graduation” In the case of failing a course of in previous semester, it is recommended that this course be selected.

Certain courses have other courses as pre-requisites. This means that certain groups of courses have an internal order of priority, which students are obliged to complete in order to successfully pass from the first to the second and so on. This procedure does not apply to students “pending graduation”. Page 19 of this Study Guide presents the table of pre-requisite courses. 

Attendance

Each semester consists of 13 weeks of teaching. The start and end date of each semester is set by the TEI Council. Students are encouraged to declare and attend the classes of the standard semester in which they belong, so that they can adhere to the class schedule and avoid overlapping.

The classes, course workload and credits are calculated in a manner that allows students in a standard semester to take 5 or 6 courses, requiring attendance of 24-26 hours per week, equivalent to 30 credits.

By resolution of the Department’s General Assembly, first-year students are obliged to attend the seminar entitled “First-year student Induction” which takes place in the first week of their studies on a date and at a time which is announced on the Department’s website.

The courses of the department are: Theoretical (23), Laboratory (2) and Combined (19).

If the number of teaching hours for a course taught during one semester amount to less than two thirds of the curriculum, it shall be considered that the course was not taught. In order to successfully complete the laboratory course or the separate laboratory part of a combined course, students must complete 80% of the practical exercises conducted successfully.

Laboratory attendance is compulsory. However, non-attendance for theoretical parts of a course creates obvious difficulties which can obstruct successful completion of the laboratory part. Obviously the purely theoretical courses are more effectively carried out with the attendance and active participation of a satisfactory number of students. Theory also involves exercises, case-studies, tutorials, assignments, etc, which help students to assimilate the subject taught.