Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European
Communities, 2009, 64 p.
This ECTS Users’ Guide provides guidelines for implementation of
the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS). It
also presents the ECTS key documents. The Guide is offered to
assist leaers, academic and administrative staff in higher
education institutions as well as other interested parties.
The 2009 Users’ Guide elaborates on the previous version of 2005.
It has been updated to take account of developments in the Bologna
Process, the growing importance of lifelong leaing, the
formulation of qualifi-cations frameworks and the increasing use of
leaing outcomes. It has been written with the help of experts
from stakeholders’ associations and ECTS counsellors, and submitted
for consultation to stakeholders’ as-sociations, Member States’
experts and the Bologna Follow-up Group. The European Commission
has coordi-nated the drafting and consultation process and is
responsible for the final wording of the Guide.