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5.1 a department or other recognised unit of the
University, or
5.2 industrial, commercial, governmental, educational
or research organisations approved by the Faculty
Board, or
5.3 a combination of 5.1 and 5.2.
In addition, a candidate may be required to undertake
other formal studies as approved by the Faculty Board.
6. Duration
The candidate may undertake the program on a fulltime
or part-time basis. Excluding any periods of
intermission as set out below, the duration of
candidature shall be:
6.1 for a candidate whose degree under 4.1.1 or
whose award under 4.1.2 involved less than four
years full-time study (or its part-time equivalent):
not less than twenty-one months and not, under
normal circumstances, more than thirty-six months
of full-time study;
6.2 for a candidate whose degree under 4.1.1 or
whose award under 4.1.2 involved not less than
four years full-time study (or its part-time
equivalent): not less than fifteen months and not,
under normal circumstances, more than thirty-six
months of full-time study;
6.3 where a student undertakes the masters degree
program (or any portion thereof), by part-time
study, the maximum time shall normally be not
more than seventy-two months.
After taking advice from the supervisor(s) and the Head
of Department, the Faculty Board may grant a period
of intermission of candidature on such conditions as
the Faculty Board sees fit.
7. Supervision
For each candidate the Faculty Board shall appoint, on
the recommendation of the Head of Department, and
on such terms and conditions as the Faculty Board
determines, one or two supervisors, one of whom shall
be a member of the academic staff of the University.
If the program is carried out within the University, at
least one supervisor shall be a member of the
academic staff of the department in which the
program is conducted.
Where two supervisors are appointed one shall be
designated the Co-ordinating Supervisor. The Coordinating
Supervisor must be a member of the staff of
the University. The Co-ordinating Supervisor shall have
overall responsibility for the administrative conduct of
programs. H for any reason a supervisor is unable
effectively to supervise the candidate for a period
exceeding three months, the Faculty Board shall, on the
recommendation of the Head of Department, appoint a
replacement supervisor.
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supervisor (or Co-ordinating Supervisor) will be required
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to interview the candidate. The candidate will be given
access to the report and will have the opportunity to
comment to the Faculty Board on the supervisor's
assessment of progress.
Where the Faculty Board is of opinion that a
candidate's progress is not, prima facie, of a satisfactory
level, a candidate may be required to show cause why
candidature should not be terminated.
Failure on the part of the candidate to demonstrate
satisfactory progress may result in the Faculty Board
terminating candidature.
9. Thesis
9.1 Three copies of the thesis shall be submitted to the
Registrar. At least two of the copies must be bound.
9.2 The thesis must be typed one and a half spaced, in
English on A4 size paper, and conform to any other
specifications prescribed by the Faculty Board.
9.3 One copy of the thesis shall, if passed by the
Faculty Board, be lodged in the Swinburne Library,
one shall be held by the department in which the
work was done, and one shall be returned to the
candidate.
9.4 With the Faculty Board's prior approval a candidate
may submit work other than in the form set out in
9.2 and 9.3.
10. Examination
The Faculty Board shall appoint on the
recommendation of the Head of Department and the
Co-ordinating Supervisor, on such terms and conditions
as the Faculty Board determines, at least two examiners
in respect of each candidate's thesis. The candidate's
supervisor shall not normally be appointed as an examiner.
At least one examiner shall be external to the
University.
The name of the examiners shall not, without the
approval of the Faculty Board, be disclosed to the
candidate. Each examiner shall provide a report to the
Faculty Board on the standard of the candidate's thesis
and recommend one of the following courses of
action:
(a) that the thesis be passed;
(b) that the thesis be passed subject to the inclusion
of minor specified amendments;
(c) that the thesis be returned to the candidate for
major revision and re-submission within a specified
period; or
(d) that the thesis be failed.
Each examiner should indicate whether the report is to
be made available to the candidate in whole or in part.
11. Patents and registered designs
The patent rights or right to register a design for any
device, process, chemical or the like which has been
invented or dewloped by a candidate for the degree of
Master by research in the course of the program being
undertaken for the degree shall, unless otherwise
determined by Council on the advice of the Faculty
Board, be the property of Swinburne University of
Technology.
12. Confidentiality
It is the Faculty Board's view that in general the public
should have access to the material contained in a
Masters thesis once the degree has been awarded.
However, the Faculty Board recognises that where a
program of research is carried out in or in conjunction
with the type of organisation referred to in 5.2 above,
the candidate, in order to pursue such a program, may