- At the justified and documented request of the doctoral candidate, the Head of Doctoral School may grant an education leave in the following cases:
- temporary inability to receive education due to illness;
- the need to provide personal care for a sick family member, a child up to 3 years of age or a child with a disability certificate.
- During the period of leave, the doctoral candidate retains the rights of a doctoral candidate, including the right to receive a doctoral scholarship, with the provision that the total period of receiving a doctoral scholarship in doctoral schools may not exceed 4 years.
- The leave may not affect the deadlines for activities in the doctoral candidates’ education process specified by law, such as a presentation of the Individual Research Plan and the mid-term evaluation. Postponement of the deadlines of the above-mentioned activities is possible only in emergency situations, when the presence in person of the doctoral candidate is impossible, e.g. due to an accident or long-term illness.
- The total period of leave may not exceed one year.
- The doctoral candidate returning from the leave is obliged to make up for any program differences.
Application for leave of absence from education
