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Full-time equivalent (FTE), or whole time equivalent (WTE), is a unit of measurement that indicates the workload of an employed person (or student) in a way that ...
Positions that tend to be temporary and/or part-time include: Adjunct Professor, Adjunct Instructor, Adjunct Lecturer. Faculty who serve part-time, and typically also work actively in their profession (e.g. medicine, engineering, law). Visiting Professorships and Professor-in-Residence. May also include assistant, associate, and full levels/ranks.
Academic rank (also scientific rank) is the rank of a scientist or teacher in a college, high school, university or research establishment.The academic ranks indicate relative importance and power of individuals in academia.
Credit points tend to reflect all forms of study and assessment by a student in a unit, not just contact time [note 2]. The Australian Government's common measure of university course credits is known as Equivalent Full-Time Student Load (EFTSL). Under this system, a normal full-time load of study is 1.000 EFTSL per year or 0.500 EFTSL per ...
A graduate certificate [3] (GradCert, GCert, GradC) is a higher education qualification at the same level as a bachelor's degree but more limited in scope, taking less time to complete - normally between one third and two thirds of an academic year (or full-time equivalent).
Course equivalency is the term used in higher education describing how a course offered by one college or university relates to a course offered by another. If a course at one institution is viewed as equal or more challenging in subject and course material than a course offered at another institution, the first course can be noted as an equivalent course of the second one.
The top grade, A, is given here for performance that exceeds the mean by more than 1.5 standard deviations, a B for performance between 0.5 and 1.5 standard deviations above the mean, and so on. [17] Regardless of the absolute performance of the students, the best score in the group receives a top grade and the worst score receives a failing grade.
New state regulations took effect on July 26, 2011, limiting Running Start students to a 1.0 FTE (full-time equivalent) limit for high school or higher education courses each, and a 1.2 FTE limit for both institutions combined. (1.0 FTE is equivalent to 15 college credits, or 1,500 high school weekly minutes of instruction). [10]