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- Each province should have its own centre of institutional studies to provide its students with an intellectual formation according to the tradition of the Order and of the province. The centre’s faculty or group of professors, constituted according to the province’s Ratio Studiorum Particularis, and under the presidency of the moderator, is responsible for the institutional studies of the brothers even when their studies are pursued outside the centre or outside the province.
- A centre of institutional studies which provides the entire curriculum required by the Ratio Studiorum Generalis offers the best possible intellectual formation according to the tradition of the Order. Provinces should, whenever possible, establish and strengthen such centres.
- Where, because the number of students is small or there is a lack of suitable professors, or because of the benefit of collaborating with other institutes for the good of the Church, the centre of studies does not provide a curriculum, and the students with the consent of the Master of the Order frequent other institutes or faculties not belonging to the Order, then the centre of studies should provide some courses and programmes for the students so that they can have a real experience of study within a community of the Order, especially in subjects relating to the doctrinal tradition of the Order.
- When students are sent to another province for institutional studies, they retain their links with their own centre of institutional studies; they return to it at least for some experience of study within their own province; and they are subject to the faculty of that centre insofar as the planning and coordination of their studies is concerned.
- When students are sent to centres of higher studies of the Order or other centres of higher studies, they remain under the regent of studies for the planning and coordination of their studies.
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