Re: Student and university contract

ma wrote:
"D" <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:4lbqrkF16l0tU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

ma wrote:

Hello,

What type of contract is between PhD student and university?

What do you have on paper?


Nothing! Just an admision letter.

What is the meaning of suitable supervision? In the case that a PhD project failed, who is responsible?

I guess it will depend on why the PhD was failed. Have you submitted a thesis yet, has this been examined? If it has been examined you should have had comments from the external and internal examiners on why your thesis hasn't reached the required standards. You usually have a chance to correct those problem areas. Did you have an internal mentor who wasn't your supervisor - this seems to be quite common nowadays. What checks were made on your progress by the department during the period of the PhD?

Alternatively if you mean the project failed to reach its objectives is this because the original project was too ambitious in its aims, can something be recovered from this, were the ambitions the supervisors of students, was a fall-back position anticipated/built in to the PhD? Or was the student simply out of their depth?




The project is in initial stage yet. Just one year part time is finished. The first year examination took place. The examination board reported that the project should be redefined but the supervisor told that he is no longer interested in the project and asked student to re-register as MSc.

The project initially defined by university.



Is it acceptable that university do this?



"Project should be re-defined" is academic-speak for a "Project should be scrapped".

It is acceptable to universities that they do this. It often happens.

This is the nature of research - very often what initially appears to be a good idea leads to a dead-end.

It isn't in the supervisors' interest for a project to flop - they get no papers out of a dead project.

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Sue



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