Monitoring of academic progress and decisions on students' rights

Monitoring of academic progress and decisions on students' rights Abstract This diploma thesis focuses on the legal aspects of the monitoring of academic progress at higher education institutions in the Czech Republic and their relationship to decisions on students' rights and obligations. The thesis is based on the applicable legal framework contained in Act No. 111/1998 Coll., on Higher Education Institutions, supplemented by a relatively extensive body of case law of the Supreme Administrative Court in this field, together with the internal regulations of higher education institutions. The thesis analyses individual forms of the monitoring of academic progress applied in practice on the basis of internal regulations of higher education institutions, in particular, course credits, examinations, and final state examinations, and examines their legal nature in relation to students' rights. At the same time, the current statutory procedure leading to the issuance of decisions on students' rights and obligations is described in detail, within which ambiguity concerning the exhaustiveness of the statutory list of such decisions pursuant to Section 68(1) of the Act and the consequences of this inconsistency are identified. Alongside this, specific types of decisions included in this list that have the closest...