Deletion from the Matriculation Register
Deletion from the matriculation register means the removal of a student from the list of Tallinn University students. A student shall be deleted from the matriculation register for the following reasons:
- at the student´s own request;
- at the instigation of the University;
- upon graduation, after completing the study programme in full.
A student may submit an application in the Study Information System for deletion from the matriculation register at his/her own request.
At the instigation of the University, the student shall be deleted from the matriculation register for the following reasons:
- failure to advance in studies:
- as a full-time student, has not accumulated at least 15 ECTS credits during the first semester of the first academic year;
- has failed to meet the requirements of part-time study by the end of the academic year;
- has failed at the second attempt to defend his/her final thesis or receive a positive result for a final examination;
- has failed to receive a positive result during evaluation in Doctoral studies;
- has not submitted an application to be transferred to another study programme by the date of closure of the study programme;
- has been divested of active legal capacity or his/her active legal capacity has been restricted due to mental illness, mental disability or other mental disorder;
- dies.
- failure to meet the requirement of the reimbursement of study costs by the due date;
- essential violation of the requirements and procedure of regulatory acts established for studies;
- has failed to conclude the learning agreement or an annex to it by the deadline;
- being a first-year student, has failed to commence studies, i.e. has, during the first semester, failed to register for courses worth at least 23 ECTS in full-time studies and at least 15 ECTS in part-time studies by the deadline set in the academic calendar for electronic registration of courses;
- has been absent from studies (except if a student is on academic leave or studying abroad) when he/she has not compiled and submitted a study plan by the deadline set in the academic calendar or has failed to go to counselling as provided in Subsection 5 of Section 32 of these Regulations;
- is a third level higher education student who has not submitted a personal study and research plan by the submission deadline, or the deadline on the personal study and research plan has passed.
- putting other students or persons in danger as a result of his/her behaviour;
- by committing an essentially indecent act.
- has intentionally committed a crime and he/she has been found guilty by reason of a court decision;
- has forged documents;
- has essentially violated generally accepted behavioural norms;
- has disregarded the principles of academic ethics.
The student shall be deleted from the matriculation register for a breach of the principles of academic ethics in particular if they:
- used additional materials, environments, tools, or other resources during an examination or pass-fail assessment that is not allowed by the lecturer;
- exchanged knowledge during an examination or pass-fail assessment which is not authorised (sharing information with other students or copying answers from others, etc.);
- participated in an examination or pass-fail assessment on behalf of another student or has enabled another person to participate in assessment on his/her behalf;
- submitted his/her own previously submitted unchanged work repeatedly for evaluation of different learning outcomes;
- plagiarised, i.e. used other people’s work and/or ideas without providing proper academic reference to the original source, thus violating the rights of the original author(s) to their intellectual outputs and/or using one’s own previously published work or research results without providing proper academic reference;
- fabricated data (including sources);
- falsified data, meaning knowingly altering data or research results, presenting them in a biased or incomplete manner, or manipulating equipment or research material;
- used data, research results or applications in a manner that has harmed research subjects and/or the environment (including violations of the informed consent of research participants, cruel treatment of experimental animals, or other similar cases).
The student will be informed by email of his/her pending deletion from the matriculation register and/or of the initiation of deletion from the matriculation register at the instigation of the university. The student has the right to present his/her position, explanations and objections in writing or via e-mail.