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The European Community promotes interuniversity cooperation
as a means of improving the quality of education for the benefit
of students and higher education institutions, and student mobility
is a predominant element of that interuniversity cooperation
ECTS provides
an instrument to create transparency, to build bridges between institutions
and to widen the choices available to students.
The system makes it easier for institutions to recognise the learning
achievements of students through the use of commonly understood
measurements - credits and grades - and it also provides a means
to interpret national systems of higher education.
ECTS is based on three core elements: information (on study programmes
and student achievement), mutual agreement (between the partner
institutions and the student) and the use of ECTS credits (to indicate
student workload).
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