Suitability assessment

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All students undergo continuous suitability assessment throughout their studies – both in teaching and in practice. Academic staff, practice supervisors and others who have contact with the students are responsible for monitoring and making assessments.

If there is doubt about a student's suitability, a doubt notification must be sent.

A special suitability assessment starts when a concern about a student is submitted. The person responsible for suitability at VID receives the concern, investigates the matter, and invites the student to an assessment interview.

The concern must be justified and related to at least one of the assessment criteria in Regulations to the Universities and University Colleges Act § 7-3

Doubt Report

A special suitability assessment begins when the person responsible for suitability receives a doubt report. If the doubt is unfounded, the report is rejected. If the doubt is justified, the student is called in for an assessment interview.

Assessment Interview

The assessment interview should help to clarify the case, and allow the student to present their side of the case.

A student who is called in for an assessment interview may bring a support person. A support person can be, for example, a family member, a friend, or the student ombudsperson.

Extended Guidance and Follow-up

A common outcome of an assessment interview is that the student is offered extended follow-up and guidance. This does not apply if it is obvious that follow-up and guidance will not help the student.

The purpose of extended follow-up and guidance is to remove justified doubt about suitability.

Extended follow-up and guidance can include, for example, conversations, practical exercises, solving cases, and reflection notes.

If the student shows necessary change and development after extended follow-up and guidance, the special suitability assessment is terminated, while the ongoing suitability assessment continues.

The person responsible for suitability shall submit the case to the suitability committee if:

• the student does not accept or complete the offer of extended follow-up and guidance
• extended follow-up and guidance has not led to necessary change and development in the student

Suitability Committee

The person responsible for suitability sends the case to the committee with a description of the case and what follow-up the student has received.

The student has the right to present their views to the suitability committee.

The student can use a lawyer that is covered by VID from the time the case is presented to the suitability committee. Legal expenses are covered by VID according to current rates.

The suitability committee prepares a recommendation to the committee for student affairs based on submitted documentation and the student's account. The recommendation shall state whether the student is suitable or not suitable, and whether the student should be excluded from the education, as well as the length of the exclusion period.

Committee for Student Affairs

The committee for student affairs makes a decision on whether the student is suitable or not suitable. The student can be excluded for up to 5 years.

The student cannot apply for admission to similar educations during the period the exclusion lasts.

Joint Appeals Board

The student can appeal decisions made by the committee for student affairs to the Joint Appeals Board. If the student does not succeed in the Joint Appeals Board, the student can take the case to the courts.

Anyone who is in contact with the student can send a notification of concern, for example:

• academic staff
• the field of practice
• fellow students
• administrative staff

The person who sends the notification of concern is not a party to the case and is not entitled to information about the progress of the case. As a general rule, one cannot be anonymous, but exceptions can be made pursuant to Section 19 of the Public Administration Act.