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Doctor
of Philosophy
The
final thesis is usually examined by two or more examiners from other
universities, and the student may also be required to explain and
defend his research in an oral examination conducted by these
examiners.
Conclusion
In
postgraduate work you are moving gradually away from the undergraduate
situation of being taught by someone else to becoming your own teacher.
Every postgraduate who is writing a thesis or undertaking research
is assigned to a supervisor (or a group of s upervisors). Nevertheless,
by the time you are a doctoral student, you may be working in an
entirely new area of research in which you are, in a sense, ‘more
expert' than your supervisor. At this point your supervisor can
only offer you general guidance and you must assume independent
responsibility for the progress and fi ndings of your own research.
In
the next two chapters we shall look in more detail at the role of
the supervisor in relation to the graduate student, and then at
the strategies which many g raduates use while working their way
through their Master's and PhD programmes.
Summary
In
this chapter we have summarized information about the structure
post graduate degree courses in Australia , including Graduate Diplomas,
Master's and PhD degrees. (Information on postgraduate studies in
Britain , Canada and the United States is given in Appendices
1-3.)
Faculties
Honours graduates
moving
gradually away
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