Regulations for examinations

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:

Doctor of Philosophy, Master of Science, and Master of Letters: Notice

(Statutes and Ordinances, p. 473)

With effect from 1 October 2012

The General Board, with the concurrence of the Board of Graduate Studies, have approved amendment to the regulations for the Doctor of Philosophy, Master of Science, and Master of Letters to allow, by special permission of the Degree Committee, the submission of other work in addition to the dissertation for consideration by the Examiners. The Board have also agreed that candidates for these degrees should not, in future, be permitted to submit published work which is not connected with the subject of the dissertation or related to it.

Regulation 6.

By amending the final sentence of the regulation so as to read:

By special permission of the Degree Committee, a candidate may submit other work to be considered by the Examiners together with the dissertation, the whole forming an integrated submission.