Educational Leave

  1. At the justified and documented request of the doctoral student, the Head of Rzeszów University 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.
  1. During the period of leave, the doctoral student retains the rights of a doctoral student, 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.
  2. The leave may not affect the deadlines for activities in the doctoral students’ 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 student is impossible, e.g. due to an accident or long-term illness.
  3. The total period of leave may not exceed one year.
  4. The doctoral student returning from the leave is obliged to make up for any program differences.

Application for leave of absence from education