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This webpage has been newly created to provide you with latest information regarding Czech Universities and the credits they award to holders of British internationally recognized certificates administered by the British Council. Here you will find out more about how international certificates can gain you extra points in their entrance tests as well as granting existing students exemptions from specific exams during the course of their studies.

We will be adding new information to this webpage and keeping it updated. You can look forward to new information soon!

Are you a University representative and would you like to add your University to our list?
Please contact Táňa Rybenská, tana.rybenska@britishcouncil.cz

List of Universities
(click on the name of University for more info)

		Charles University in Prague (Faculty of Law)

Cambridge exams and the IELTS exam can help you at the Faculty of Law, Charles University in Prague, not only at the faculty entrance tests but also if you are already a student of the faculty.

1) Entrance tests – full-time study,
Master’s degree study program law and legal science, subject: law, academic year 2009/2010

Students are awarded 10 extra points at the faculty entrance tests if they hold an internationally recognized certificate attesting to their English language proficiency at B2 and above in the Common European Framework for Languages – i.e. FCE, CAE, CPE, IELTS (band 5 and above).

The faculty awards up to a maximum of 20 points for foreign language proficiency, limited to a maximum of 10 points per langauge.The exam must be an internationally recognized exam or state exam certificate. Applicants will be awarded these points on the basis of exams passed anytime in the past, if they deliver an appropriate certificate to the study department of the Law Faculty, Charles University in Prague. Note that only those applicants for whom the language is not their mother tongue will be awarded these extra points.

Foreign language exams must be passed by 1 June 2009 at the latest for these purposes.

2)´Diferenční´ exam from legal English during studies

Law students are required to pass a legal foreign language exam at/by the end of the third year of their studies. A Cambridge certificate holder – FCE, CAE, CPE or an IELTS certificate holder will upon his/her request be permitted to sit only the written part of the exam (in contrast to the full exam) as well as being exempt from credit tests during their studies.

Source:
http://www.prf.cuni.cz/detail_dm.php?id_aktualita=8025
http://www.prf.cuni.cz/detail_dm.php?id_aktualita=8082
Leaflet of the Language department for UK PF students

		Technical University of Liberec (Faculty of Economics)

1) Entrance tests

The Faculty of Economics at the Technical University of Liberec recognises the following Cambridge Certificates attesting English Language Proficiency at B2 and above in the Common European Framework for Languages: FCE, CAE, CPE, IELTS, BEC Vantage and BEC Higher.

2)´Odborný jazyk´ exam during studies

There are further advantages for BEC Vantage and BEC Higher certificate holders who are exempt from the requirement of sitting a business English exam in the third year of their studies; BEC Preliminary certificate holders are exempted from a business English exam in the second year of studies.

The faculty recognises that holders of any of these standardised business language certificates have a real advantage in the labour market as a result of their level of language competence.