Cambridge University Reporter


Certificate of Postgraduate Study in Economics

The General Board and the Board of Graduate Studies have approved a proposal from the Faculty Board of Economics and Politics to introduce a Certificate of Postgraduate Study in Economics with effect from 1 October 2005. Special regulations for the examination have been approved as follows:

Economics

1. Certificates of Postgraduate Study shall be awarded for advanced study and training in research in Economics.

2. The study and training shall include:

(a)attendance at courses of lectures, seminars, and classes approved by the Degree Committee for the Faculty of Economics and Politics;
(b)research on a topic approved by the Degree Committee pursued under the guidance of a Supervisor appointed under Regulation 4 of the General Regulations.

3. The dissertation shall take the form of a specimen of written work having an evident and central relation to the larger dissertation which the student intends to submit in candidature for the M.Litt. or the Ph.D. Degree. A dissertation shall be of not more than 20,000 words in length, inclusive of footnotes but exclusive of appendices and bibliography, and shall have been composed wholly or largely in the period since the student's admission as a Graduate Student.

4. At the discretion of the Examiners the examination may include (in addition to the submission of a dissertation and an oral examination as laid down in General Regulation 5) written papers or other exercises on subjects cognate to the lectures, seminars, and classes attended by the candidate.