Degrees and Entry
Candidature
Supervision and Progress
MPhil | |
Full-time candidates: | not less than twelve months |
Part-time candidates: | not less than twenty-four months |
PhD | |
Full-time candidates: | not less than twenty-four months |
Part-time candidates: | not less than thirty-six months |
(b) With the permission of the Head of Department and the appropriate Faculty Board a candidate for a research degree may be permitted to register concurrently for a Postgraduate Certificate in Education under special regulations in the Faculty of Educational Studies. In such a case the candidature must be full-time and the period of supervised study shall be:
MPhil: not less than twenty-four
months
PhD: not less than thirty-six
months
Temporary Suspension and Nominal Registration
Examination
that the degree for which the candidate has submitted a theses be awarded subject to the correction of modest errors/omissions of substance being made, by a date specified (the procedure for re-examination of the thesis should be clearly specified in the report). Such amendments may require limited further analysis but will not affect the originality of the central thesis. They will be of a scale to require certification by both the internal and external examiners, though normally not so extensive that an oral is required. The date specified for the submission of such intermediate amendments should normally be no later than six months after the formal notification to the candidate.
that the candidate be required to attend for a further oral examination;
that the candidate be permitted to submit by a date specified a revised thesis for the same degree for re-examination on one subsequent occasion. The date specified for submission of the revised thesis should normally be no later than twelve months after the formal notification to the candidate.
that, in the case only of a PhD candidate who has failed to satisfy the examiners, permission be given to the candidate to apply within a specified time for the award of the degree of MPhil. This may be allowed without re-examination, subject to any minor amendment of the thesis which may be required by the examiners, or may be subject to re-examination of a revised thesis;
that the degree be not awarded and that resubmission of the thesis be not permitted.