What administrators would like supervisors to know

Alison GouldManager, Postgraduate Research Programmes

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Superviso

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PGR Director

PGR Administ

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What do you need to know?

• Degree regulations• Policies

– Supervision – Interruption, Extension, Withdrawal and

Termination• Record Keeping• Review and Monitoring• Completion

http://www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/postgraduate/research/http://www.campus.manchester.ac.uk/researchoffice/graduate/

What is a PhD?

Research training

Transferable skills training

Supervised research

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Supervision

• Expected standards• Academic advice and

guidance• Pastoral advice and

guidance• Progress review and

monitoring• Reasonable access

Interruptions, Extensions, Withdrawal and Termination

of Registration

• All changes to programme of study must be agreed by School

• Interruption means temporarily ceasing to study (and leaving UK if international student)

• Extension means additional time to complete

• No retrospective requests

Mitigating Circumstances

• Exceptional situations (limited) • Personal difficulties, illness, extreme

situations• Interruptions, Extensions and

Withdrawal/Termination from research programmes

http://www.campus.manchester.ac.uk/medialibrary/researchoffice/graduateeducation/p-change-to-prog-pgr.pdf

Record Keeping

• Why? PBS visas, academic reviews, complaints/appeals, references

• What? All supervision meetings, targets, concerns, recommendations

• How? As required by School. (EProg in future)

• Content? Detailed, specific, accurate, say what you mean.

Review and Monitoring

• Every student reviewed every 6 months

• Annual Review with supervisors and independent academic

• Annual Review is formal progression review

• 6 month/interim review is formative.

Completion

• KPI for 2015/2020 Agenda

• Expectation is for students to complete in a maximum of 4 years (3 + 1 submission pending)

Let’s work together

Superviso

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Student

PGR Director

PGR Administ

rators