25Oral examination of thesis

25 Oral examination of thesis

2425.1 (1) The prescribed authority may, on the recommendation of the a candidate’s examiners, require the the candidate to be examined orally on the substance of the candidate’s thesis by one or more examiners, or by representatives of examiners appointed by the prescribed authority, at a time and place decided by the prescribed authority.

(2)25.2 The Committee may determine the manner of conducting oral examinations.

(3)25.3 If the Committee, on the recommendation of the prescribed authority, decides that an oral examination recommended by the examiners cannot conveniently be held, the prescribed authority may arrange for the holding of a written examination, set by the examiners, covering the matters which might have been raised at an oral examination and send the candidate’s answers to the examiners.

[Roger, because rule 24 is a somewhat abbreviated version of rule 18 of the PhD Rules, perhaps the following subrule should be added???

(4)25.4 Oral and written examinations under these Rules are to be conducted taking into account any guidelines issued by the Committee.

2.57 Recommendations of examiners of theses

2.57(1) This rule applies only to candidates examined on research only.

2.57(23) Each examiner of a thesis must submit to the Director SAS in an approved form a report on the examination as a whole.

2.57(34) The report of an examiner must recommend:

(a) that the candidate be granted the award; or

(b) that the candidate be failed; or

(c) that the candidate be granted the award subject to corrections or revisions (if any) required by the examiners in the thesis to be made to the satisfaction of the prescribed authority in the copy intended for deposit with the University Library; or

(d) that the candidate be permitted to submit a revised thesis for re-examination.

2.57(45) The Director SAS must send the examiners’ reports on theses to the prescribed authority.

2.58 Decision about results

2.58(1) After consideration of the examiners' reports, the prescribed authority may recommend to the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education):

(a) that the candidate be granted the award; or

(b) that the candidate be granted the award subject to making any minor amendments in the thesis required under paragraph 2.57(34)(c); or

(c) that the candidate be re-examined by resubmission of thesis or re-examination of coursework or both, as the case requires; or

(d) that the candidate be failed.

2.58(2) However, if the prescribed authority is satisfied that the overall results obtained by the candidate, both in the assessment of the thesis and in examination of the coursework and any other examinations not related to the assessment of the thesis, are satisfactory, the prescribed authority must recommend to the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) that the candidate be granted the award.