The General Board give notice that, on the recommendation of the Faculty Board or other authority concerned, the regulations for certain University examinations have been amended as follows:
(Statutes and Ordinances, p. 495)
The regulations for the examination have been amended so that the oral examination is no longer optional and to include provision for a written examination on the work submitted by the candidate.
Regulation 3.
By amending the regulation so as to read:
3. The examination shall include an oral and/or written examination on the work submitted by the candidate under Regulation 2 and on the general field of knowledge within which it falls; save that the Examiners may, at their discretion, waive the requirement for an oral examination.
On the recommendation of the Degree Committee for the Faculty of Economics, the General Board and the Board of Graduate Studies have approved an amendment to the scheme of examination in Economics so that the two options currently available become separate subjects. Option A will continue to be entitled Economics; Option B will be entitled Economic Research; the special regulations for the two examinations are set out below.
1. The scheme of examination for the one-year course of study in Economics for the degree of Master of Philosophy shall consist of:
| (a) | three compulsory and five additional modules, selected from a list of core and optional modules published by the Degree Committee for the Faculty of Economics, which shall each be examined by a written paper of two hours' duration; |
and
| (b) | a thesis of not more than 10,000 words in length, on a subject approved by the Degree Committee. |
2. The list of modules shall be published by the Degree Committee not later than the end of the Easter Term of the academical year preceding that in which the examination is to be held, provided that the Degree Committee shall have power to give notice of additional optional modules not later than the end of the Michaelmas Term. A candidate may not offer a module that he or she has taken in any other University examination.
3. The examination may include, at the discretion of the Examiners, an oral examination on the work submitted by the candidate under Regulation 1, and on the general field of knowledge within which such work falls.
1. The scheme of examination for the one-year course of study in Economic Research for the degree of Master of Philosophy shall consist of:
| (a) | six compulsory and two additional modules, selected from a list of core and optional modules published by the Degree Committee for the Faculty of Economics, which shall each be examined by a written paper of two hours' duration; |
and
| (b) | a thesis of not more than 10,000 words in length, on a subject approved by the Degree Committee. |
2. The list of modules shall be published by the Degree Committee not later than the end of the Easter Term of the academical year preceding that in which the examination is to be held, provided that the Degree Committee shall have power to give notice of additional optional modules not later than the end of the Michaelmas Term. A candidate may not offer a module that he or she has taken in any other University examination.
3. The examination may include, at the discretion of the Examiners, an oral and/or written examination on the work submitted by the candidate under Regulation 1, and on the general field of knowledge within which such work falls.